A maid secretly takes her mistress's place in an arranged marriage--igniting unexpected passion--in New York Times- and USA Today- bestselling author Heather Graham's turn-of-the-century romance.
On a frigid March day in Yorkshire in 1895, ten-year-old Marissa Ayers encounters a raven-haired, blue-eyed stranger for the first time.
When next they meet, she has put the dust of the coal mines behind her and is now a lady's maid at a fine estate, determined to esc.
