Miss Rosalind Carberry defied all warnings when she accepted Lord Philip Southvale's proposal. First her father distrusted the breathtakingly handsome, fabulously wealthy Englishman. Then rumours ran riot about his persisting passion for his beautiful first wife. And overshadowing everything was war fever as it rose between Philip's country and Rosalind's America.

Nonetheless Rosalind believed his warm words and her heart's ardent answer. Alone she set sail to England to join with him in wedlock. It was only when she landed that she discovered the awesome odds against her -- as she faced a rival who seemed to hold all the cards in a game of love with no rules and all risk...