After tragedy forces Evelyn to surrender her infant at a nobleman's door, she seeks work in the city to survive. Fate brings her to Ashbourne Manor as a nursemaid, unaware that the little boy in its care is her own child and that stern Duke Cedric is the stranger who changed her life forever. Though he has shut every woman out of his heart, her presence unsettles him. When their hidden past is revealed, desire, duty, and a stolen family collide.