Was the dark haired adventurer from the West Indies really Blane Mallow, heir to the Mallow estates? Was he really the boy who had run away to sea so many years ago? Sarah Mildmay and her fiancé Ambrose had to know. For Ambrose was the next heir to Mallow Hall and their marriage depended on him gaining his inheritance. So the beautiful and spirited Sarah went to Mallow Hall as governess to Blane's son Titus, hoping to solve the mystery. If Blane was an impostor, why did Titus look so like his grandfather's portrait? And who was the mysterious Samantha? Sara though she wanted to discover the truth. But the truth was to prove stranger than she had ever imagined...