Violet had her heart broken by "The Disappointment" one year ago and is spending her last days in Spindle Cove before being forced back onto the marriage market. She still regrettably pines for Christian, aka "The Disappointment," who she has loved since childhood and who she spent one night with before he disappeared with nary a promise or a by your leave. Violet is stunned when she finds out the bloody, washed up, nearly dead man who appears at the Spindle Cove Christmas ball is Christian, posing as a French farmer. She finds out Christian didn't intend to leave her at all and has also been secretly pining for her all this time but has been secretly spying in France for the Crown. He's now back to convince her to wait for him, but she isn't so sure.

A fun novella, but not quite as fleshed out as I would have liked. Christian wasn't my favorite hero. I think what he did was shitty and felt Violet forgave him a bit too quick.