Anemone Carstase, the daughter of a British intelligence officer, learned the risky art of espionage from childhood... and remained comically ignorant of the art of being loved and happy. But one day fate sent the girl a meeting with the brave American Stephen Burke. He was supposed to become for her the worst of enemies, but he became a gentle lover, a fearless protector and the first man who opened to her a new and beautiful world of burning, frantic, all-consuming passion...