Georgetta Frost knew very well that if she did not marry before the age of twenty-one, she, according to the terms of her parents' will, would be left penniless. However, the brave girl chose a deadly hunt for a huge sum of gold, boldly stolen by criminals from the royal treasury, over a marriage of convenience. But how could the best friend of her older brother Hugo, Lord Starling, a promising young doctor and a gentleman to the core, allow the fragile Georgette to get involved in such an adventure alone? Especially considering that every day he understood more and more clearly that his anxiety for Georgette’s fate and his readiness to protect her at any cost were not caused by friendship, but by a much more fiery feeling?..