How do you recover from being accosted by a stranger? Annabelle can't seem to rid her mind of the man who terrorised her, and his face seeps into her brain at idle times. When her Father presents the man to the influential and prominent members of their small community at her Mother's dinner party, Anna is traumatised and flees from the event. Once Annabelle and her family move to London for her season, a series of events puts an end to the family's hope that the situation will remain private. A traitor in the household sells the knowledge of Anna's social transgressions, and her nemesis dooms her to spinsterhood when he refuses to marry her. When someone steps up to offer for her, Anna and her husband move away from the man who has caused Anna such heartache. The perpetrator's malicious comments devastate the lives of Anna and Marcus. When a friend steps in and demands that Marcus repair the fractured marriage, another problem surfaces. Can Anna and Marcus make their marriage work, or was his gallant offer of marriage doomed to failure?