With disaster on the prowl and a secret brewing within her, Frances Hawkins flees her life in America and journeys to London in hopes of finding her long lost sister, Layla. But instead of Layla, Frances finds Roman Brown, Layla’s grief-stricken widower.

Devastated by the news of her sister’s unfortunate passing and unwilling to return to the ruins of her past life in America, Frances is without a choice but to remain in London and be bound by fate in a marriage of convenience to her dead sister’s husband.