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When Madalene Montgomery returns to London after years away, she has only one goal: to secure an impressive proposal of marriage in her first season as a London debutante. Yet her reunion with the affluent Radcliffe family threatens the undoing of all her carefully laid plans.
Enter Jacob Radcliffe, the older brother of her closest childhood friends, now a man of the ton -- handsome, popular, alluring --- and totally out of bounds according to Madalene's family. Not that it seems to matter much, seeing as upon reacquaintance, Jacob quickly declares he wants nothing to do with her.
Yet as she guides her way through a season of endless, glittering ballrooms, dimlit garden-parties and chance encounters with the very same Radcliffe son who claims to loathe her, Madalene soon learns there are no rules when it comes to matters of the heart, and that to follow duty and save her family from ruin, she may have to sacrifice her one true chance at love.