When she'd written a letter to Lady Ascalden requesting an employment opportunity, Angerona Sheridan had not expected to become the dowager's companion, let alone be courted by her son... Breccan Ascalden, chief lord of the Aligoron parish, knew it was high time he remarried. But the sting of his previous wife's betrayal was still fresh...the grief of his father's death still gnawing at his heart. But when he meets the lovely Miss Sheridan, he instantly sets out to claim her. Except he did not foresee her faith being a part of the bargain...