Impoverished Judith Wyatt had planned to become a schoolteacher at the academy where she had been educated after the murder of her parents in India. Yet after spending some weeks with her friend Charlotte Grant at the family’s estate, she realizes that she has fallen in love with Charlotte’s dashing older brother, Captain Jordan Grant. Jordan himself finds himself drawn to this quiet young woman, even as intrigue arising from his service to an Indian maharajah threatens Judith and his family.