With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie...


哥哥湯瑪斯於殖民地戰場上受傷後，孤苦無依的塞西莉亞．哈考特面臨艱難的兩項抉擇：搬去和未婚的阿姨住，或是嫁給狡詐的表哥。塞西莉亞選擇了第三項，也就是渡過大西洋並照顧哥哥直到他康復。經過一星期的搜索，賽西莉亞沒找到哥哥反而遇到哥哥最好的朋友，英俊的軍官愛德華．羅克斯比。他昏迷不醒且急需照料，塞西莉亞誓言拯救他的性命，就算待在他身邊意味著撒了個小謊……