Carola Greton was playing the part of the Marchioness of Broxbume, wife of the magnificent master of Brox Hall. But Carola was a sheltered young country gentlewoman, and the Marquis was the darling of highest Society. It was a delicate deception, intended to shield the Marquis from the matrimonial ambitions of a wealthy American. Carola could never have foreseen the dangers: an amorous and cynical Duke, a pair of ruthless kidnappers—and most perilous of all, her love for the imperious Marquis, and a fervent hope that sweet pretence might become joyously real!