Penniless! Gwendeline, just 18 and totally unsuited to earn her own way inthe world, was to be evicted from her country, estate. Then the butlerushered in a tall, rather arrogant visitor. Lord Merryn. He had, it seemed,been a friend of her late parents, who had lived too well and toobriefly--squandering their fortune and then meeting death in a carriageaccident. But Gwendeline was an older orphan than Lord Merryn had expected;she was a young lady and must be introduced to London society. Quickly, heinvented a "group of her parents' friends" to finance her debut. Never mustshe learn that he alone was her benefactor- nor why.