Widowed after seven years of celibate marriage to a man old enough to be her father, Lysette Ravaisson is still young, lovely and free at last to seek the love she longs for. But the burden of her lat husband's debts forces her to a fateful decision-she must abandon Saint-Cloud, her beloved plantation home and her loyal servants, or marry a wealthy Nicholas Callaway, the man with whom she had once shared a brief moment of passion, but who now seems cynical and cold.
