Alys Weston has taken care of her widowed father for years. Yearning for a life outside the confines of her family home. She gets an opportunity when her vaguely disreputable and overweight aunt offers her a chance to pay a visit with her to Harrogate (to take the waters of course). She encounters Lord Rayven and he fares worst from the encounter.

She returns to her life with her father, resigned to spinsterhood until her father dies and her cousin marries a woman determined to see the back of her. When she moves to London, having had some success with writing, she finds herself attracted again to Lord Rayven. However there's something going on that involves something her mother took from her family. Something that Lord Rayven is also interested in. Can she trust him?

It's a fun read, I really enjoyed the characters and would love to read more in this world, the vague hints of secret societies intrigued me. ( )