To Lady Lorelei Ashbridge, life as one of the most eligible brides is anything but wanted.
Left in the care of her brother after her parents’ death, she can’t help but resent her family’s legacy: a decades-old feud with the Earldom of Rinehorn.
Being the Earl of Rimehorn, Rufus Godfrey quickly realizes, is a lot harder than he could have ever imagined. Especially when the title comes with additional baggage: the obligation to hate the family of the woman he’s secretly in love with.
However, like a rose among thorns, their hope for a shared future is clipped abruptly. When Lorelei is pronounced dead after a terrible accident, all that remains of her is a single handkerchief with her blood on it…