Count Whyc(n)ewome sent his daughter, Lady Percy Brooke, to her aunt in India so that society would forget the scandalous incident. A year ago, the young woman ran away from home with the handsome Steve Doyle—the man she became taken with because he looked like Ellis Linton, her first love! But Steve turned out to be unworthy. Luckily, the father caught up with the fugitives before anything irreversible happened—though he could not have known that his daughter had already been in a man’s arms when she was only sixteen! And that man was Ellis Linton. Percy sails home on a ship to England, and among the passengers she discovers Ellis. He is handsome, brave, intelligent, charming—and openly seduces Percy! Very soon the girl understands: her beloved doesn’t remember what happened between them eight years ago—the night after which he disappeared from her life…