Miss Louella Rose is sweet, beautiful, and refined, seen by her family as the answer to all their troubles, but beneath her flawless composure she is hiding a private shame. The Marquess of Stanton has promised his father he'd marry by the age of thirty, and that time has finally come; to his relief, the woman chosen for him turns out to be the perfect debutante, at least until he discovers scars that make no sense and shatter the illusion he'd built around her.
Lies, family pressure, and guilt threaten to lay waste to a marriage that could otherwise be everything either of them wanted, and both Louella and Stanton must decide whether their love can survive the truth about her past.