Charlotte Morton was presented with a tragic and difficult dilemma when her twin brother, Oliver, died after an unfortunate accident. Before he died, he made her promise that she would present herself into the family of the young lady, Georgiana Stavely, whom he had met only two months earlier. They had fallen in love even upon first meeting, and had made their ambitious plans for the future, all of which now lay in ruins. To provide Georgiana with the protection of his name, they had secretly married. He made is sister promise that Georgiana, and the child she would eventually bear would be protected and looked after. The opportunity to become a close companion and friend to the young lady, without revealing her own identity or interest, was unexpectedly presented to her. However, she had to take on the identity of another, in order not to be recognized as Oliver’s sister with all of the difficulties that that would introduce. When Georgiana’s own brother, Henry, appeared on the scene late one night, the initial gentle deception soon grew into much more than she could easily handle. The circumstance rapidly went beyond her control when Georgiana died giving birth, leaving her to look after the baby and to deal with Henry. She knew that she had to take the baby with her and escape the suddenly impossible situation she was caught up in before her deception and other disturbing elements of her past caught up with her. She hoped Henry might forgive her for what she had to do and for other deceptions she now must hide from him. She knew that he would never give up on finding her, though it was to be six years coming to that point-and not a moment too soon-with an old family skeleton from more than twenty years earlier suddenly threatening all of their lives.