Bethany was an unwanted stepdaughter when David swept into her life and took her to Italy to his beautiful villa. Forgetting the blood tie between them, she fell in love with him-and when David sent her back to England, denying the love she was sure he flet for her, she was heartbroken. But time passed, and Bethany met Robert Rathbone-a practised seducer who to her astoinshment, asked her to marry him. Then after she had accepted him, she learned that she and David were no delated after all. But was he still free? Did he love her? And what of her commitment to Robert?