Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0446602760, Mass Market Paperback)

After her husband, the seventh Earl of Weston, succumbs to fatal pneumonia, Annabelle knows her life will never be the same. Her husband has appointed his younger brother Stephen the legal guardian of her young son--the same Stephen who, five years before, was banished to Jamaica for a mysterious crime; the same Stephen who was her only friend in childhood, and her first love as a young woman; the same Stephen who broke her heart and abandoned her to a cruel marriage. The pain of the past can only be healed when Annabelle and Stephen join forces to untangle the morass of deceit and betrayal that separated them, and overcome the sinister threat that plagues them still.