May Bradford has one goal: to return to India and her father\"s work with the East India Company. More than anything, she longs to get far away from England and her aunt\"s strictures on being a perfect English rose....

Sophie Wembley has always been an expert at making the most of things. She\"s in possession of only a modest dowry, but she grins and teases that at least she won\"t be the prey of a fortune hunter. She knows she is nothing like the ton\"s idea of a diamond of the first water. But even so, it\"s been the best summer of her life in Bath......