Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, is twenty-five years old and bored He is London's most notorious daredevil and much admired by his male peers He has never lost a wager, though he has taken on some hair-raisiабюмяng ones But there seems to be no new challenge left to him and life looks empty and dreary as it stretches before him He is also very drunk following his birthday celebrations-as are all his male friends And so from the depths of the forbidden a new challenge is botавсрыh suggested and accepted Jasper is to seduce a virtuous female within two weeks, something beyond the pale of decency even for him And the virtuous female is to be Katherine Huxtable, the beautiful, virtuous, and naïve sister of the new young Earl of Merton.