A light-hearted Regency tale, the next in the Wild Marchmonts series.

Stephanie Marchmont, 17 years, has been sent from London to cool her heels in a country house in Surrey, to be separated from her loving family as punishment for her putting herself in danger there once too often. But she encounters a band of footpads attacking a gentleman, and enters the fray with her customary bravery.

The Earl of Hedley is entranced by his rescuers offer to teach him some lessons in manly sport, and although he is the foremost sportsman in England, he wickedly accepts her help.

There begins the jest that his friends Sir Rupert Armitage, Lord Benjamin Fortescue and the young Horace Pettigrewjoin in on, and Stephanies adventures continue.

But will all the friends continue to see Stephanie as merely an amusement ? Or will hearts collide?