An invitation to a country house party at Beaumont Castle provides a perfect solution to Tobias and Lavinia?s most exasperating challenge: how to escape the chaos of London for a remote, relaxing--and above all romantic--retreat from prying eyes and wagging tongues. But the lovers? plans are foiled when their first cozy interlude of the weekend is disrupted by the appearance of a stunning woman from Tobias?s past. Aspasia Gray?s beauty is as haunting...

'I would not leave Wideacre. I would not surrender my place to Harry. If it was the way of the world that girls left home and sons inherited, then the world would have to change. I would never change.' Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the 18th century, she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others....