Miss Clarissa Wyckenham comes to London to join her pretty stepmama - only to find that Mama-Nell has formed a 'discreet club for ladies' ...! Soon she is pitched headlong into the deliciously wicked antics of the Belles Dames Club, and finds herself in conflict with the disapproving Lord Alresford. But when one of the Club's members, Lady Dorothea Gaunt, takes her pursuit of excitement to the point of indulging in a little highway robbery, what is Clarissa to do ...?