After her tragic death in a fire set by the Ashby family she had loyally supported for years, Lady Cordelia Ashby is reborn to age twenty-two, seven years into her supposed widowhood. She swiftly uncovers the family’s long-hidden deception: her husband Julian, declared dead at the Karrow front, lives in secret with his lover Marianne and their son Bram, whom the Ashbys tried to pass off as a street foundling. Armed with sharp wit and full control of the household ledgers, Cordelia outmaneuvers the ruthless Dowager’s cunning schemes to reclaim her good name, personal fortune, and rightful authority over Ashby House.