Dashiel Hamilton has loved Laura since the day they met, but he wasn’t the man she chose for a husband. Laura has always considered Hamilton a dear friend until the day he became her lover. He is everything she needs in the moment, providing her with long denied compassion and sexual fulfillment.
She can’t admit to romantic feelings, not the day after. It was one glorious night; the dawn reminds her of duty. No good wife succumbs to her husband’s best friend. Not the day after his death. Laura is obliged to mourn her husband, but the memories of one night bring her home again.