Poverty forced the lovely Englishwoman Nadine Talbot to take the place of a governess in the family of a wealthy Turkish man from Constantinople. But suddenly she learned that the vizier of the sultan had already marked her as a wife-to-be. In the East, where a woman is not supposed to ask for consent for marriage, Nadine has no one to appeal for protection… no one, except the fearless agent of British intelligence, Lyle Westley, to whom she once—without even knowing it—saved both his life and his heart at first sight…