At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs that she would one day become a beauty.
Even she had accepted the fact that, although she was the daughter of a baron, she would struggle to find a husband - until the afternoon when the handsome Viscount Turner kissed her hand and promised her that one day she would grow up to be a beautiful and intelligent woman.
And even at the age of ten, Miranda knew that she would love him forever.

Today I fell in love! she wrote in her diary.
The years that followed were harsh for Turner and turned him into a lonely, bitter man, shattered by a great loss. But Miranda never forgot what she had written on paper when she was still a child - and when their paths cross again nine years later, she does not intend to let the love that was her destiny slip through her fingers...