The Duke of Ravenstock is the most attractive and elusive bachelor in London ? and the most notorious. His exploits and romantic escapadeskeep the salons of the Social world buzzing ? but never more so thanwhen he announces that he will marry. His friends soon realise thatwhat has captured the Duke? s heart is the purity and innocence of hisintended bride. The wedding date has been fixed when the Duke discovers by accident that his fiancée has taken a lover, a close friend ofhis. Shattered and disillusioned, the Duke plots a cruel revenge. Whenhe reveals to his sister, the Mother Superior of a Convent in Paris, that he seeks the most innocent girl he can find for his bride, sheintroduces him to Anoushka, a novice in her care at the Convent. Anoushka has a mysterious background, having been broughtsecretly and anonymously to the Convent as a child. n Somewhatreluctantly Anoushka agrees to marry the Duke, but, to his amazement, her beauty and innocence prove more of a challenge than he couldpossibly have imagined.
