From the back cover: "She'd scandalized polite society.Now she sought revenge. In a cold fury Miss Philadelphia Hunt stood before the throng of former friends and took over the auction of her precious family gems.With burning topaz eyes and incorruptible beauty, she challenged them to buy her disgraced father's estate.Then she left, penniless, Chicago society's castoff,vowing to find and destroy the man who drove her father to ruin.That was when the dark,commanding stranger strode into her life with a proposition she couldn't refuse......"