Francis Markrute, a fabulously rich financier of unknown origin, arranges for his beautiful niece Zara to marry Tristram, Lord Tancred, an impoverished aristocrat. Zara agrees but treats her husband with icy contempt, refusing to tell him why she accepted, and the newlyweds circle one another through a tense honeymoon while Tristram falls helplessly in love.
Glamorous Edwardian romance from the author of Three Weeks. Download the free EPUB.