"Lovely young widow Alice Penhallow and handsome Piers Westhaven, the future Lord Berringer, were ideal friends. Piers provided Alice with a charming companion. Alice offered Piers understanding and advice as he sought a suitable wife. Alice gave Piers the support he needed when he at last asked the very youthful but extremely voluptuous Miss Cassandra Borden to be his bride. It was only then that Alice found that the way she needed Piers went far beyond friendship... beyond propriety to the very brink of scandal... and beyond..." -- Back cover.