For years Andrea had been used to getting her cousin Clare out of scrapes - but this one really took some beating! Clare, it appeared, had made a rash promise to marry a Frenchman whom she had never even met, and he was insisting on keeping her to the promise. So Andrea found herself agreeing to go to France in Clare's place, to sort the situation out. She had certainly never foreseen what would ensue: that in a short time she would find herself married to the forbidding Blaise Levallier, and in the centre of a mystery from which there seemed to be no escape. She had not foreseen, either, that she would fall in love with Blaise - a man about whom she still knew nothing . . .