Years ago, Miss Esme Astell fell hopelessly in love with Charles Brittle, an unassuming and highly respectable London bookmaker.
Then he disappeared without a word . . .
The last thing Esme ever dreamed was to meet Charlie again?
In a dark alleyway?
In a drenching rain?
In a chase with the police?
In Scotland.
Can she fall again, this time for the dangerous scoundrel he's become?