Marry in haste... Beth, Lady Allerton, is determined to reclaim Fairhaven Island,stoDebutante Lady Eleanor Trevithick's elopement with Kit, LordMostyn, was enough to have the gossips in an uproar. Then it was heardthat her new husband had disappeared a day after the wedding...andtheir marriage became the most notorious in town! Repent at leisure...Kit returned five long months later, not atliberty to explain the secret assignment that had forced hisdeparture. He was determined to win back his bride's affections.Eleanor could not deny that she was still in love with her husband,but she not forgive him his desertion and she also had aheart-breaking secret that she had sworn never to tell him.