Sapphires in Siam - Camfield, No 53 Author:Barbara Cartland The Marquis of Vale was handsome and wealthy -- but utterly bored with London's predictable pleasures and amorous titled beauties. Then an early-morning message plunged him into a perilous maelstrom of intrigue in the Far East, and the unexpected rapture of true love. The woman in question: Ankana Brook, an outspoken daredevil.