Evelyn Harper had always believed her fiancé, Julian Knightley, was the childhood friend to whom she owed her heart. She lavished him with all her tenderness, unaware that her true savior—and the man who had fallen for her—was Julian's formidable uncle, Alexander Knightley. When her status-obsessed future mother-in-law humiliated her at the engagement party, it was Alexander who stepped forward to stand by her side.