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Lady Sarah Evanston wants to reclaim her life after losing both parents in quick succession. Mourning them has kept her from society. Now she must find a suitable husband or risk being a spinster and living the rest of her life alone. She has promised herself she will reopen her family home and live there alone, rather than marry someone she does not truly love.
Lord Reginald Guilworth, the Marquis of Ellswarren is feeling family pressure to assume responsibility, marry and produce an heir to the Guilworth fortune. He contemplates a marriage of convenience to shield himself from being hurt by love, again.
Sarah and Reggie have been close family friends since her childhood. Sarah has always adored him, yet he has never taken notice of her. She has resolved to move forward giving up that childhood dream.
Reggie's cousins, members of the exiled French aristocracy, come to stay with the Guilworth family, embroiling them all in international intrigue involving the teetering French government and upheaval of the aristocratic class of France. Among the political chaos and the horrific year of natural disasters, Reggie and Sarah are drawn together and realize they do share an abiding love for one another.
But events conspire to tear them apart, with deadly consequences for all those involved, threatening their end their happiness almost before it begins.
