深閨怨

Countess Zara is recently widowed and poor. She has a half brother that she is responsible for and her uncle persuades her to marry a man she doesn't know so that this half brother will be taken care of with her uncle's riches. But she is very much against the marriage and considers it to be a degradation to sell herself in this way. She is also highly traumatized by the abusive relationship with her first husband and does not like men. Enter the hero! The cultivated aristocrat Tristram Tancred who has agreed to marry Zara because he has fallen for her at first sight, not for monetary reasons as she believes! 

Elinor Glyn原著
Barbara Cartland 節撰

The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn
Condensed by Barbara Cartland for Library of Love series.