Beautiful Annaliza Sedgewick was a parson's daughter, as unspoiled and untamed as the wild cliffs of Cornwall.

Lord Jonathan Sinclair was the most handsome and infamous nobleman in eighteenth-century England, with the pick of London's ladies at his feet and in his bed.

Their first meeting exploded in violence, as Annaliza learned the power of lust within her, and Sinclair for the first time felt the seductive stirrings of love. Annaliza fought against her own desire by leaguing herself with a man sworn to destroy her conqueror. Sinclair sought to mock his heart's hunger with orgies of the flesh.

And both were swept up in a mounting whirlwind of intrigue and passion that seemed certain to tear them apart before it could ever make them one...