Sometimes, just one person can pull a whole family apart. And sometimes, it just takes one person to pull it back together.

In this Westcott family novel, New York Times bestselling Regency Romance author Mary Balogh shows once again how love truly conquers all.

As a young man, Justin Wiley was banished by his father for mysterious reasons, but now his father is dead, and Justin has been Earl of Brandon for six years. A dark, dour man, he nonetheless takes it as his responsibility to care for
his halfsister, Maria, when her mother dies. He travels to her home to fetch her back to the family seat at Everleigh Park.

Although she adored him once, Maria now loathes Justin, and her friend Lady Estelle Lamarr can see immediately how his very name upsets her. When Justin arrives and invites Estelle and her brother to accompany Maria to Everleigh Park
to help with her distress, she begrudgingly agrees for Maria’s sake.

As family secrets unravel during Maria’s homecoming, Justin discovers his desire for a countess. And while he may believe he’s found an obvious candidate in beautiful twenty-five-year-old Lady Estelle, she is most certain that they could never make a match. …