Innocent and lovely Shimona Bardsley?s father, the celebrated actorBeau Bardsley, has fallen desperately ill and yet he insists onpersevering with the evening?s performance as Hamlet at The TheatreRoyal, Drury Lane.
A concerned Shimona accompanies him to thetheatre where she overhears the notoriously disreputable Duke ofRavenstone ? known as ?His Disgrace? ? offering her father the hugesum of five hundred guineas to find him an actress to play ?a part?for just two nights.
Desperate to raise enough money to take herfather to a warmer clime and thereby save his life, Shimona acceptsthe Duke?s offer and finds herself reluctantly embroiled in adeception that her conscience finds hard to bear.
Unchaperoned inthe grand Ravenstone House in London with the devilish Duke and animperious Clan Chieftain, Shimona is afraid, alone and in trouble ?
But soon, to her bewilderment and ecstasy, she finds that she isalso in love.
Innocent and lovely Shimona Bardsley?s father, the celebrated actorBeau Bardsley, has fallen desperately ill and yet he insists onpersevering with the evening?s performance as Hamlet at The TheatreRoyal, Drury Lane.
A concerned Shimona accompanies him to thetheatre where she overhears the notoriously disreputable Duke ofRavenstone ? known as ?His Disgrace? ? offering her father the hugesum of five hundred guineas to find him an actress to play ?a part?for just two nights.
Desperate to raise enough money to take herfather to a warmer clime and thereby save his life, Shimona acceptsthe Duke?s offer and finds herself reluctantly embroiled in adeception that her conscience finds hard to bear.
Unchaperoned inthe grand Ravenstone House in London with the devilish Duke and animperious Clan Chieftain, Shimona is afraid, alone and in trouble ?
But soon, to her bewilderment and ecstasy, she finds that she isalso in love.
