Miss Madeline Wycliff had two sisters as different as night and day. There was Arabella, bold and brazen, who stole Madeline's chance for a London season. To save her sister from a married fate worse than death, Miss Madeline Wycliff turns her back on the handsome seafaring stranger who offers her a voyage to the wilder shores of love. And she would have to get close to a nefarious nabob in his lordly lair to save her sister's happiness and innocence -- even if it means sacrificing her own.