Christopher, Baron Chiddingly, would have liked more money to fund his passion for horses, but he had no real urge to marry a fortune. Not until Miss Persephone Winsford, newly returned from India with a fortune from her nabob father, and reputedly as horse-mad as the Baron, came into his ken. Bluntly autocratic, the Baron met his match in Miss Winsford - she didn't suffer fools gladly either! And neither seemed prepared to compromise.