The third novel in New York Times bestseller Jane FeatherΓÇÖs sexy and scintillating Blackwater Brides trilogy about the bonds of family and the lure of romance.The headstrong and beautiful Alexandra Douglas is summoned to London from the seminary for young ladies upon the death of her father, Sir Arthur Douglas. There, the family lawyer explains to her that she and her invalid sister, Sylvia, have been left penniless, disinherited, delegitimized. Her father had divorced her mother on the grounds of insanity, making the children of the marriage illegitimate, but still allowing him to remarry. On Sir ArthurΓÇÖs death, his considerable wealth and estates passed to a distant relative, while his widowed second wife and stepson received handsome inheritances.