It was insupportable! Just because she couldn't prove her father had died in Africa and so couldn't claim her inheritance, was no reason to put her virtue at risk from her employer's nephew! But due to a series of mishaps making her escape, Miss Corisande Clifford found herself walking to Bath...
only to be nearly mown down by Marc, the wild Marquis of Dene! His conscience smitten, Marc arranged for his widowed sister Fanny to take Corisande to London - but that put the bright sunny girl within his orbit. A mistake, when his father has already chosen Marc's bride...