Dashing Druce Pevel, the Marquis of Peverell, Lord of all he surveys, with women falling at his feet...

A pair of money-grabbing, murderous cousins bent on bleeding him dry – or even dead...

Shamara, an innocent, yet strangely exotic, Missionary's daughter, plucked from an orphanage to become the Marquis's ward...

A bewildered Shamara finds herself voyaging aboard his yacht to Senegal – where it's the Marquis's turn to be bewildered when they're kidnapped by a tribal chieftain and held for ransom in his kasbah...

At first he is mystified... How is it that this innocent abroad knows the ways of the Africans – even speaks their language. How has she such wisdom beyond her tender years? Then, as he watches over her sleeping in their kasbah prison, Druce is suddenly smitten – and taken aback by the fierceness and passion with which he swears, "I will kill anyone who hurts her!"