When Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, first meets Phoebe Marlow, he finds her dull and insipid She thinks he is insufferably arrogant But when a series of unforeseen events leads them to be stranded togetherабыву in a lonely country inn, they are both forced to reassess their hastily formed opinions, and they begin to discover a new-found liking and respect for each other But what Sylvester doesn’t know is that Phoebe is about to publish a novel—a novel in which all London wiавпчйll recognise him as the villainous ‘Count Ugolino’.