A scandalous marriage to an impotent, eldery roué - undertaken to pay her brother Malcom's gambling debts - has left Isabel de Riché cynical, her reputation ruined. When she returns in 1720, a widow, from the court of Versailles to her father's castle in Scotland, she finds that her name is a byword there as it has been in France. James MacLeod believes the stories and treats Isabel as he thinks she deserves, yet finds himself falling in love with her: slowly, Isabel's frozen heart melts again. Then James learns that she is meeting another man is secret, as if she were the wanton he first thought her...
Ficção / Romance