After waiting five years for her fiance to return from the war and marry her, Roxana Langley has been jilted! She may have longed for excitement, but this was not what she had in mind...Who could possibly throw over a woman as beautiful and vivacious as Roxana? Certainly not Alex Winslow, the Earl of Ayersley, who has spent years trying in vain to forget his unrequited love. When he learns she's been abandoned by her cad of a fiance, he finds himself offering a shoulder for her to cry on.