The Earl of Wentworth has a fiery and unpredictable temper and isabout to fight a duel in Hyde Park with a Frenchman who has insultedhim, when he is restrained by his friend, Sir Thomas Babbington, and a helpful Policeman. At the same time the beautiful Temia Brandon is returning home from her Finishing School in France and is longing tosee her horse, Lightning, again. Temia discovers that her fatherhas been hiding a dark secret for many years and is now beingblackmailed by the odious Lord Alphonse who threatens to reveal thesecret and ruin the family? s reputation. Lord Alphonse nextproposes to Temia with her father? s approval and she has noalternative but to run away from her home in Northamptonshire to thebright lights of London. Through a strange set of coincidences Temia? s and the Earl of Wentworth? s paths cross and then Sir Thomas Babbington unexpectedly falls in love with her. Temia? s strongcharacter and resolve are tested to the extreme and she is buffetedfrom pillar to post. How Temia helps defeat Lord Alphonse anddespite endless dramas eventually find happiness with the one man shereally loves and who loves her is told in this intriguing andfast-moving tale by BARBARA CARTLAND.
