Part of The London Trilogy by Sherry Thomas
First published 2008
For ten years, Gigi Rowland Tremaine and her husband Camden have lived on separate continents. London society calls their arrangement civilized. Gigi calls it survival. Now she wants to remarry, and that means she needs Camden to let her go. Camden returns from America willing to grant the divorce, but his terms are outrageous. Gigi has no good options, and she knows it. What London does not know is what happened the morning after the wedding. That one betrayal split their lives in two and sent Camden across an ocean. Gigi has kept the story buried for a decade, along with everything else she felt for him. Negotiations force them back into the same rooms, the same conversations, the same dangerous proximity. Old desire does not stay polite. Secrets that Gigi buried begin to surface, and Camden starts to understand things he never did before. The question is no longer just whether she gets her freedom. It is whether two people who wrecked something real can build anything true from what remains, or whether they are better off finally, cleanly, walking away.
Genres: romance, literary-fiction, adult, adult-fiction, historical-romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotionally-complex, intimate, introspective, slow-burn, tension-filled
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, second-chance-romance, secret-past
Setting: London, America
Period: 19th-century
350 pages · Hardcover · Bantam Dell
Content warnings: emotional-abuse