"I'm not a child!"
Briony Campbell was tired of being patted on the head and told to go to bed. She was also tired of being given frilly little-girl dresses with puffed sleeves. Didn't people realize she was now a grown woman, with a woman's feelings -- and body?

Jake Trelawney was particularly infuriating.... He was constantly surrounded by beautiful women, yet his hard sapphire gaze never seemed to notice that Briony wasn't a child anymore. How could she make him see the change in her? She was determined to find a way -- or leave. And leave was exactly what she had to do....