Venetia Lanyon has spent most of her life managing a Yorkshire household and protecting her younger brother. Her ordered existence changes when she meets the neighbouring landowner Jasper Damerel, a man whose scandalous reputation has made him unacceptable to respectable society.
Their friendship develops through intelligence and frankness rather than conventional courtship, but family secrets and social pressure threaten the relationship. Venetia must decide whether inherited ideas of respectability should determine her future or whether she can choose a life on her own terms.
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