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Widowed by the Battle of Waterloo, the ladies of Lyttlefield Park are returning to London society - with their futures in their own hands . . . The widowed Lady Stephen Tarkington, Fanny to her friends, has finished mourning her cad of a husband and is ready to enjoy her freedom. The kind of freedom neither a gently bred miss nor a close-watched wife is permitted: dressing up as Aphrodite for a masquerade, drawing gentlemen away from the party, and hinting at late-night assignations with her dance partners. All is going pleasurably according to plan - until the Roman warrior Fanny kisses during a masque turns out to be Matthew, Lord Lathbury, whose proposal she refused years ago . . . Lathbury is charming, passionate, inventive, everything Fanny wants in a lover - but unfortunately, he's on the hunt for a wife.