The Spring He Let Slip Away

Joy Culver spends three years caring devotedly for the bedridden Lionel Ward. Everyone believes she is deeply in love with him, yet the moment he recovers, she leaves. Once a proud and carefree prodigy, Lionel is changed by tragedy and hides his true feelings behind cold indifference. Only when he sees the newly risen marquis, Cedric Slade, holding Joy's hand does he finally realize the pain of losing the woman he loves, and that chasing her back may already be too late.