Dilys Byrn had been an inexperienced, easily infatuated young girl when she fell head over heels in love with handsome and dashing Lord Travis Gallant. But Dilys had reached the reasonable age of marriage now, and should have had enough good sense to forget the man who had become the most notorious rake in London.

Yet while the most eligible gentleman of the ton courted her, Dilys courted scandal by clinging to her impossible dream of love--even though she knew how slim the chances were of that dream coming true... and how dangerous it would be if it did. ...