title: Broken Promises
author: Oliver, Patricia
description: The Altar Stood Empty
  
  Miss Mathilda Heath took a stand for love when she abandoned Miles Stephens, Viscount Halifax, on the eve of their wedding. Perhaps if Miles had seemed at all smitten--if he'd given her a billetdoux or the speaking glance she coveted--she would not have fled to India with his far more affectionate friend....
  
  Now, a decade later, Mathilda has returned to London as a widow with two young sons--and encountered the still-handsome man to whom she was once betrothed. There's something different about Miles, though--a warmer glance, a brighter smile ... dare she say a bit of a romantic spark? For Miles and Mathilda, this just may be a second chance at love--or a devious scheme matching broken heart for broken heart....