In escape from the ignominy of an arranged marriage with an elderly,fortune-hunting contemporary of her father, Catherine Pelliston takesoff for London where there is expectation of employment as aschoolmistress. Despite her purposely prim appearance she is abducted,drugged and imprisoned in a bawdy house. There the handsome Lord Rand,a soldier returning from the Continental war, and engaging in a lastcarousing before submitting to the protocols of the London season, isintrigued by this unlikely denizen of a brothel. So begins anotherfast-paced Regency from the author of Isabella and The English Witch.Against the familiar accoutrements of the ton's social scene, the twocentral characters, alike in stubbornness, misconceptions andunconventional manners, are attractively engaged in clearing thehurdles to their unsurprising union.