Will she be able to save him from himself?


Grace finds herself wed to a man who loathes her. She is shunned and exiled to the farthest corner of the land. It wouldn't hurt so much if he hadn't once been her best friend.


Thomas became a duke long before he was ready. Now he can't go anywhere without women trying to entrap him into marriage. He expected better from his childhood friend.


How can friendship, let alone marriage, thrive in the face of bitterness, suspicion and misunderstanding? What's to be done when the hurtful choices made in anger have lasting consequences?


It takes a special kind of person to see past the pain to the beauty that lies beyond…