Back cover: Disguised as a boy, Melissa Mansfield had thought to stow away in the carriage of an elderly couple who would surely sympathize with her tales of misfortune. But instead she hid in the wrong carriage--and found herself in dangerously close quarters with the Marquis Theron de Lisle, notorious woamnizer and libertine--and the last person in England to be taken in by the ploys of a stray ragamuffin...