After six years abroad, Anne Webster returned to New Biddeford with a child -- whose unruly red hair and mischievous green eyes left society no doubt as to the identity of his mother. Though five-year-old Ian was really Anne's nephew, her dead sister's child, nothing could erase the stigma with which she had been branded. Anne's girlhood companion, Viscount Frederick, was the only person to offer friendship -- and then rapturous love. But how could Anne let Freddie destroy his life by marrying a woman with a tarnished reputation such as hers?
