Arriving in London from exotic Indochina, Leona Montgomery was very surprised to meet the man who had once been her first love. But she was even more surprised when she found out that he was Lord Easterbrook, one of the richest and most noble people in England.

Why did Christian lie to her? Why did he hide his real name?

And how much truth is there in the vague, dark gossip that surrounds him?

Leona is tormented by suspicions and drives away her resurrected feeling for the Marquis, but soon she becomes it is clear that you can madly love and passionately desire a man, even without trusting him...