About the book: year / Inexperienced and naive Valerie Stanbrook allowed one fatal mistake to change her life forever. Does she have any hope for happiness? Or from now on the poor girl is doomed to cold and loneliness... *** Nathaniel Shannon was not looking for love. The young widower had every reason to distrust women, especially ones as beautiful as the beautiful stranger he met on the dark streets of London. But one look into the depths of her silver-amethyst eyes made him lose his head, and at the same time his heart....