When Miss Frances Armstead invented a secret betrothal to Lord Greville Wainwright to ward off her uncle's insistent matchmaking, she thought it was the perfect safeguard to a single life. After all, Lord Greville was a naval hero who--rumor had it--was consigned to a watery grave at sea.

But suddenly her faux fiancé returned--very much alive! Would he tar and feather young Frankie's reputation all the way to fashionable London--or would Lord Greville exact an altogether more titillating vengeance?