When Colonel John Ancroft is persuaded to escort an elderly widow to Yorkshire, he has no idea that the lady in question is beautiful heiress Caroline Duval. Her disguise is only revealed when he happens upon her, her widow's weeds discarded, swimming naked in a pond in the woods...;. Suddenly his selfcontrol is severely tested as he confronts this bewitching beauty. He's furious and undeniably attracted to Miss Duval. But she has embarked on a dangerous undertaking where scandal could ruin them both...;.
