Estranged from her family, Maria Mercer is desperate to be free of the fetters of her English finishing school. Rumors fly when she returns home for Christmas and her mother announces her engagement to a baron in London, dashing Maria's hopes of reconciliation and laying roots in her beloved Montana. Charming and wily Victor Dannon is determined to marry Maria as their families always intended, but only as a means to his own end. To win her heart, past rifts must be healed. When old betrayals are unearthed, can new love heal the pain?