When she flees from an obsessive suitor, Anne Mackenzie never dreams that the children she takes into her care will be the key that allows her to return home to England. Lord Westcott can protect her from the man in her past, but the price is a loveless marriage. Unless Anne can thaw the heart of this compelling, aloof stranger, they may be irrevocably bound to a lifetime of unhappiness. Unable to ignore the bonds of friendship, Lord Westcott reluctantly agrees to visit Portugal in search of a missing child. A recluse since the death of his wife and a crippling injury to his daughter, he never imagines he will return with two orphans and a wife—a wife whose dangerous secrets threaten his very life—and his long frozen heart.