Araminta Surtaine will be 18 in two weeks, and free to control her fortune. Her guardian arrives to take her to her family home supposedly to sign papers that will transfer all control of her forutne. On the trip from London, Araminta awakes from a nap to overhear her guardian and his son plan her abduction and force her into marriage for control of her fortune. She decides to jump from the carriage, but lands badly and hits her head on a rock. When she awakes, she finds herself in a circus caravan, and cannot remember her name or what happened. Most fortunate that Lord Giles Bishton, on the track of a traitor, arrives at the circus in time to help.
...but when Araminta realized that Lord Robert planned to force her into marrrying his repugnant son, she resolved to risk death to avoid the fate. And so it was that she flung herself from his speeding carriage into darkness and awoke in a camp of gypsies--her memory gone, her name changed, and her future as mysterious and exciting as the roguishly handsome stranger whose true identity was asdangerous to reveal as Araminta's own...
