Mora Harding, a young woman from a noble family, came to London from Devonshire hoping to blend into the big city. She ran away from home to escape marriage to the powerful and domineering Baron Wilderham—an unsafe and cruel deviant. In London, the girl took a position as a governess in the household of Riordan Barrett, the guardian of two small children. Mora had no idea about his depraved reputation—and even less that very soon he would teach her a lesson in open sensuality and show her how to commit a successful sin…