The Duke of Ravenstock is the most attractive and elusive bachelor inLondon ? 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 theConvent.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.
The Duke of Ravenstock is the most attractive and elusive bachelor inLondon ? 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 theConvent.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.
