Lady Caroline March called no man master, but her wild, rebellious spirit drove her from the staid Victorian England of her birth to the opium dens of Suez and beyond -- to the lush, bejeweled pleasure-domes of decadent maharajas...through jungle mazes rife with intoxicating dangers and jasmine-scented temples of pain and ecstasy...and into the arms of dashing Captain Rowland Steel, the only man who could match her thirst for freedom.

Plunged into a world aflame with revolution, these magnificent lovers play out a tumultuous drama of unquenched passion, exotic desires and eternal, all-conquering love.