Publisher's Synopsis
When Colonel John Ancroft is persuaded to escort an elderly widow to Yorkshire, he has no idea that the lady in question is heiress Caroline Duval. Her disguise is only revealed when he happens upon her, her widow's clothes discarded, swimming naked in a pool. Suddenly his much-vaunted self-control is severely tested as he confronts this bewitching flame-haired beauty. But she's embarked on a dangerous family undertaking where scandal could bring them both down...