Sequal to the first book in the series: Butterly Summers.
Since the death of her daughter, Mary Lett has tried to forget her grief in mad parties.Finding her difficult to live with, her husband, Geoffrey, seeks solace elsewhere. Trying to forget his own love towards Mary, his brother Henry marries Grace but her frigidness drives him back towards Mary again who falls pregnant by him. Still married, he persuades her former sweetheart, William Goodridge, to marry her and give the baby his name. But both men have made deep and lasting vows –one of monogamy, the other of celibacy – and neither will find these vows easy to keep.