What do you do when someone rips your life apart? You pick up the pieces and put them back together. And sometimes you discover the pieces form a new pattern better than the original. When Hermione Newburn steps through the door at her first ball her expectations go no further than a pleasant evening with a few dances with some friendly gentlemen. What she gets instead is betrothed to a man who only holds her in contempt. Over the next year she is married, abandoned, disrespected, redeemed, and her marriage annulled. Then she is reacquainted with her former husband and against all odds the feelings of the former adversaries have changed significantly. It seems their previous animus has dissolved. What's left are possibilities. And possibilities can lead to more than one could ever imagine.​