Beautiful, young, impoverished Parson?s daughter, Hermia Brooke, ishappy with her simple country life, despite being shunned by herwealthy uncle the Earl of Millbrooke and her cousin, the spoilt andselfish Marilyn.
In a chance encounter with a raffishly handsomegentleman, whom she decides resembles the Devil himself, shenevertheless helps him with a stone stuck in his horse?s hoof.
Rewarded with a golden guinea and a shocking kiss, Hermia findsher world turned topsy turvy when she meets the mysterious strangeronce more at the behest of Marilyn, who is determined to trap this?Devil? ? namely the Marquis of Deverille ? into marriage.
Just as Hermia?s innocent heart warms to the gentler side of this hard-bitten aristocrat and he falls under her guileless spell, the Marquis isembroiled in a murderous plot and Hermia must fight for his life, even as all hope of the love she dreams about for herself seems lost.
Beautiful, young, impoverished Parson?s daughter, Hermia Brooke, ishappy with her simple country life, despite being shunned by herwealthy uncle the Earl of Millbrooke and her cousin, the spoilt andselfish Marilyn.
In a chance encounter with a raffishly handsomegentleman, whom she decides resembles the Devil himself, shenevertheless helps him with a stone stuck in his horse?s hoof.
Rewarded with a golden guinea and a shocking kiss, Hermia findsher world turned topsy turvy when she meets the mysterious strangeronce more at the behest of Marilyn, who is determined to trap this?Devil? ? namely the Marquis of Deverille ? into marriage.
Just as Hermia?s innocent heart warms to the gentler side of this hard-bitten aristocrat and he falls under her guileless spell, the Marquis isembroiled in a murderous plot and Hermia must fight for his life, even as all hope of the love she dreams about for herself seems lost.
