Bonny Reed is beautiful, inside and out. A loyal friend and loving daughter, she’s newly engaged to her small town’s most eligible bachelor. She’s happy for herself-but mostly for her family, who need the security her marriage will bring. An old enemy shatters her illusions. First Baron Loel cost Bonny’s family her fortune. Now he’s insisting that her fiance has hidden flaws, secrets so dark that-if she believed him-she’d have to call off the wedding. How will she choose? When the truth comes out, Bonny will have to choose between doing what’s right and what’s easy. Between her family and her best friend. And hardest of all-between her honor and the love of a man who everyone wants her to hate.