Love - Betrayal - A wicked deception. A gentleman desperate to numb the pain of the past. Tristan Wells lost everything the day he discovered love was nothing more than a bitter lie. Now, having spent five years working for the Crown in France, his brother's death forces him to return to London. He imagined his hardened heart to be impervious to pain, but one glance at the woman who ruined his life brings the torturous memories flooding back. A lady abandoned by her one true love. Betrayed by the one person who swore to love and protect her, Isabella Reid had no choice but to marry a man old...