Belle Palmer is normally finally free of charge! Separated from her father within the harrowing escape, Belle is dropped and by itself until she finds shelter with the Bests, the initial free family members she’s ever known. For the first time in her sixteen years, Belle can speak her mind-except for her feelings for a certain dark-eyed youthful man-The Beau.

Educated and handsome, at eighteen, Daniel Best is engaged to the prettiest (if a little spoiled) girl around. Therefore when the bedraggled gal his parents take under their wing abruptly turns into a vibrant, lovely young woman, his appeal to her is usually a complete-and complicated-surprise.

That the two belong together is undeniable, but caught between conscience and attraction, could it probably happen?