Miss Aimée Peters craves respectability. After her father
trades her virginity for his gambling debts, she flees
London to become a governess in a remote part of
Yorkshire. She’s horrified to find that what her new
employer, Captain Corcoran really wants is a wife!
Trapped, and disillusioned, Aimée agrees to his proposal,
but refuses to confide in him. And when he discovers she
has a fortune in coins stitched into her bodice, his own
suspicions are roused. Surely, no truly innocent woman
could have come by that amount of money legally? What
should he do? Turn her over to the law, or keep her
secret, and thereby risk becoming her accomplice? He
knows only one thing about her is real. Her passionate
response to his lovemaking…