When Davina Marfont, young, intelligent, and beautiful, is introduced to a man at a poetry recital, little does she know the sudden turn her life is to take. As the orphaned niece of Wallace Marfont, attorney to the Duke of Horndean, Davina knows much of the feud which has raged between the families of Farrington and Cunningham for more than three decades. Realising that the handsome and somewhat intense man is none other than a brother to the Duke of Calgarth, Davina understands just what dangerous territory she finds herself in. With the help of Lady Cordelia Cunningham, the romantic and tender-hearted youngest daughter of the Duke of Horndean, Davina is able to meet the romantic and disturbingly passionate young man in secret. In no time at all, the two fall in love; their shared passion for the rugged, windswept countryside of the North and the poetry of John Keats binding them together, almost as if fate had intended them to find one another. When her secret is discovered, Davina must decide between betraying the man she loves and betraying all her hopes for a safe and secure future. And when that decision is made, Lord Lucas Farrington must search his poet’s soul for his own solution.