For what seems like forever, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood. As a young girl, she was wounded by Colton's stubborn refusal to comply with his father's wishes, and by his angry departure for a life of adventure and danger as an officer in the British Army. Now Lady Adriana has blossomed into an uncommon beauty desired by every eligible bachelor in the country - yet the only man she desires is the decorated hero who has finally come home to claim his rightful title.