Madly envious of her demure stepdaughter? s loveliness, Isobel Fairburn, Lord Blackstone? s new bride, banishes young Sandra to thewilds of Bedfordshire where she is to live a miserable, isolatedexistence with her aged great-aunt. Desperate to escape this? living death?, Sandra secretly flees her home and, securing the postof ? companion? to the age-withered and cantankerous Dowager Countessof Kyle, soon finds herself amidst the glamorous Beau Monde in Brighton. Here Sandra meets the handsome Earl of Kyle and initially despises him for his cynical and sarcastic manner ? but before longshe finds that there? s more to him than meets the eye. But nosooner has love begun to grow timidly in her heart, than her hopes are dashed when she finds he is already married to a French woman. Worsestill, she hears of a sinister plot to extort money from her ? Knightof Chivalry? but what can she do? And how will she ever find a matchfor this man beyond compare?
