"From the moment when I first set eyes on you I have disliked you ..."

Rich and lovely, ardent and wilful, any restraint maddened Judith Taverner. But in her handsome guardian she met her match - and more.

Julian St John Audley, Fifth Earl of Worth, was one of the Bow-window set, a gamester, an excellent whip and a friend of Beau Brummell. Merely thinking of him was enough to put Judith into a rage. Before long she discovered there were other people who also hated her legal guardian ...