New York Occasions bestselling author Mary Balogh’s fresh Wescott series continues as a young woman deals with her father’s loss of life and a reversal of fortune. With her parent’s relationship announced bigamous, Camille Westcott is currently illegitimate and without a title. Seeking to eschew the trappings of her aged life, she leaves London to teach at the Bath orphanage where her newly-discovered half-sister resided. But even while she settles in, she must sit for a family portrait commissioned by her grandmother and endure an musician who riles her every nerve. A skill teacher on the orphanage that was once his home, Joel Cunningham continues to be hired to paint the portrait from the haughty fresh teacher. But as Camille poses for Joel, their mutual contempt soon converts to desire. Which is just the bond between them which will permit them to climate the rough storm that lies ahead.