The shadow of death falls over sunny Naples as typhoid decimates its people. And among the dead is the father whom lovely young Forella Claye adored. Fleeing for her life, she arrives, forlorn and grief-stricken, at her aunt and uncle's house in London's Park Lane. Now she is at their mercy and horrified to find that her new Guardians mean to offload her in marriage by hook or by crook. Finding herself embroiled in a sordid plot to blackmail the hapless Earl of Sherburn into marrying her, she flees again. This time on a horse 'borrowed' from the stable of the impossibly handsome, maddeningly enigmatic Hungarian Prince János Kovác. With the Prince hot on her horse's heels, she gallops faster and faster to freedom - until finally fleeing Forella is captured… And so is her heart

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