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The Halo is a novel written by Bettina Von Hutten, Lady Bridgit, , also known as Betsey Riddle, and later as Baroness von Hutten, was an American-born novelist, specializing in historical fiction. As an American in England during World War I, she was arrested and fined as an enemy alien, because she had a German ex-husband.

Mead is a bored woman who dislikes her mother and is apathetic about everything. So when Lord Pontefract proposes to her one drunken evening, she hastily says yes. Right afterwards, young Theo Joyselle urges her to reconsider, arguing that she will be happier with him, a younger, more vibrant man.