Sweet Revenge — Dorothy Wakeley

Beautiful copper-haired Polly Fielding was an orphan, a foundling who had to follow all the rules to make her way in society. Then she met Sir Richard Meredith, master of a brooding Devonshire mansion, whose storm-colored grey eyes awakened in her a new and forbidden longing. And though he was promised to her best friend, she knew that for once in her life, her heart must rule. Then suddenly, the night of the masked ball, he turned her away. Cold, distant, he was more remote than any stranger. And to discover why, Polly had to search out her own dark, secret legacy, the hidden past that was the key to her future...