As they lower her husband's coffin into the ground, Binnie breathes a sigh of relief. Richard was compulsively unfaithful to her, dying in another woman's arms. Far from leaving her a grieving widow, his death gives her the opportunity to correct old mistakes and start life afresh. Binnie savors her newfound independence, selling the family manor and leaving her gossipy neighbors behind. Only the return of an old lover, Enys Williams, tempts her to abandon her hard-won freedom. Kind, faithful, and loving, Enys is everything Richard was not. But is he worth risking her heart for?.