Forced from her ancestral chateau in the wake of the French Revolution, Lisette de Monteleon joined her twin brother Etienne in a perilous flight from the blood-maddened peasants who sought to destroy them. Lisette's youth and beauty alone were enough to enflame any man, but in addition she carried the priceless Monteleon jewels which she had managed to salvage from the ruins.
Having escaped to Scotland in disguise, the twins thought they had left all danger behind. But the evil Julien Bois was still on the trail of Lisette and the Monteleon fortune. Lisette feared that even the handsome and powerful Duke of Melton, with whom she had fallen passionately in love, would be unable to save her from falling into Julien's greet, lustful hands!