Once a housemaid, now a lady. Once lovers, now strangers. Lyra Walcott had once been truly and madly in love with the ever-stern, ever- brooding Duke of Martine. Granted, Lyra had once also been a servant to him as well. Until one night when she vanished in the night leaving him confused, desperate, and alone. Now she has reappeared a decade later masquerading as a painfully wealthy, newly widowed Lady. But she's come back after nearly ten years with a dark secret and a blackmailer holding her past over her head. Who else can Lyra turn to other than the one man who has never betrayed her?