Salem, MA 1692
When dashing stranger Henry Dunham comes to Salem on a mysterious errand, he ends up thrown from his horse in the dead of night and rescued by the local midwife, Lydia Colson. Beautiful and tempting, she's also completely off-limits.
Haunted by her past, Lydia is running from her own dark secrets, avoiding intrusive questions by pretending her dead husband is simply...away. But when she and Henry are caught in a compromising situation, one punishable by Puritan law, he saves her from scandal by claiming to be her errant spouse...