The year is 1720 and Lady Celine Fortescue is summoned by her father, Sir James, to join him on St Cecilia, the turbulent tropical island which he governs. But the girl who steps off the boat into the languid and intoxicating heat isn't the same girl who was content to stay at needlework in a dull Surrey mansion. On a moonlit night, perfumed with the scent of night-blooming flowers, Celine liaises with Liam O'Brian, one of the ship's officers to whom she became secretly betrothed on the long sea voyage. When Liam falls victim to a plot that threatens his life, the debauched Lord Wraxall promises to intervene, in return for Celine's hand in marriage. Celine, however, has other ideas.

Exotic and opulent, this story of indulgent luxury is stimulation for the senses.

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The year is 1720 and Lady Celine has been summoned to the Caribbean island of St Cecilia where her father is governor. During her long sea voyage she falls in love with one of the ship's officers, unaware that her father has betrothed her to the cruel and arrogant Lord Wraxall, who is known to delight in perverse pleasures.