The fourth bachelor of the Bastion Club has experienced his fair share of danger, but now he faces the greatest danger of all - love.
Jack, Baron Warnefleet, has turned his back on love afternearly being compromised into wedding a dreadful female. Then he rescues a strange lady from a flighty horse.
Lady Clarice Altwood is the very antithesis of the woolly-headed woman Jack has rejected: eminently capable and completely unforgettable.
But it soon becomes clear that Clarice is in danger. And Jack must use every ounce of his cunning and wit to protect this woman who quickly inspires in him such a fine passion.
