Mourning Bride — Lucia Curzon

Society gossips called Lady Charis de L'Isle the Mourning Bride and remarked on her devotion to a voting husband killed long ago. But they knew nothing of her pain. Death had cruelly taken her perfect love, and she felt mercifully numb, her heart frozen.

Then a secret wager was set--who could seduce the Mourning Bride?--and two men vied for her attentions. Sir Clayton's advances disturbed her. But the incredibly charming, impossibly desirable Sir Gideon Parre awakened in her a passion she had long forgotten....