Miss Aimée Peters craves respectability. After her father trades her virginity for his gambling debts, she flees London to become a governess in a remote part of Yorkshire. She’s horrified to find that what her new employer, Captain Corcoran really wants is a wife! Trapped, and disillusioned, Aimée agrees to his proposal, but refuses to confide in him. And when he discovers she has a fortune in coins stitched into her bodice, his own suspicions are roused. Surely, no truly innocent woman could have come by that amount of money legally? What should he do? Turn her over to the law, or keep her secret, and thereby risk becoming her accomplice? He knows only one thing about her is real. Her passionate response to his lovemaking…