Judith Jardine's one chance at a brilliant match is doomed from the start when she unjustly incurs the disapproval of the ton's most sought-after gentleman. Under a gloomy cloud of failure, Judith is exiled to a seaside cottage to spend the summer helping her sister-and living a life far below the one she experienced for a season. When she discovers the man responsible for her misfortune unconscious on the beach, she heeds her better impulses...