A mysterious man who called himself Peregrine burst into Victorian high society like a storm - and threw all his beauty, charm and magnetic appeal at the feet of someone else's bride - Sarah, Lady St. James. In the arms of Peregrine, Sarah, hitherto cold and arrogant, learned the fire of passion. But soon she was to find out that her lover’s past was shrouded in mystery, that she risked throwing in her lot with a man whose life was a continuous whirlpool of dangers..