When Annabelle Creswell and her half-sister are invited by a long-lost aunt to Bellfield Crossing for the summer, several suitors there take an interest in her, but magistrate Colin Ashton warns her that not all of them can be trusted In Regency England, the same time period and location as Bridgerton and Poldark, Isabel never dared to dream that love could be hers. Now, at the edge of a forest filled with dark secrets, she faces a fateful choice between love and duty.