Aspiring poet Nicholas Price, heir to his father's fortune, is about to meet Ada Byron, the daughter of his idol Lord Byron. However, when an attempted elopement ends in disaster, he is disinherited. Ten years later he receives a visit from Catherine, an old friend seeking shelter after a rape that resulted in pregnancy. Nicholas agrees to take her on as a maid, though at first only his brother James can see through the submissive servant to the passionate woman within. Both brothers fall for Catherine, unaware that the secret she is harboring is about to shatter Nicholas’s fragile world.

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Tags: In Byron's Shadow, Ashley J. Barnard, ABNA Top 100 Semifinalist 2008