The Perfect Debutante

Miss Louella Rose is sweet, beautiful and refined. Her family sees her as the solution to all their troubles, and she keeps her composure flawless in public. Underneath it, she carries a private shame she has told no one.

The Marquess of Stanton gave his father a promise: he would be married by thirty. That birthday has arrived. The bride chosen for him is Louella, and to his relief she seems to be the perfect debutante.

The picture does not hold. Stanton discovers scars on her that he cannot explain, and the image he built of his wife starts to come apart. Louella has hidden what lies behind them, and he has only now begun to ask.

Lies, pressure from relatives and guilt all work against a marriage that could give both of them what they wanted. Whether their love holds once Stanton learns what happened in her past is the question the romance turns on, and Louella has to decide how much of it to tell.