After her heartbreaking first Season, Elizabeth Ashling resolved to avoid London Society - and matrimony - completely. However, family obligations mean that Elizabeth is thrust back into society where she faces an overzealous poet, a bitter rival and the man who jilted her three years before. Sir Lucius Radstock, dry, dashing and as passionate about horses as Elizabeth herself, is a welcome diversion. But as her resolution to remain single falters, misunderstandings, duplicity and malice gather around her. Although, surely Elizabeth's second Season cannot rival the misfortune of her first . . .