About the book: year / The son of a French aristocrat, Jules de Grassy, ​​falls in love with the Englishwoman Alicia Ormsby and is going to marry her. The young man's father, shocked by this decision, sends his eldest son Lucien to London to prevent his brother from marrying a rootless and poor girl at all costs. Lucien seduces Alicia, who turns out to be a virgin, and, without telling his brother, returns home. Soon the family receives news that Jules died in a car accident. Eight years have passed, and fate brings Lucien and Alicia together again. She desperately wants to hate Lucien, who ruined her life, but she feels with horror that in her heart there is no hatred, but there is another feeling that is very similar to love…