London, England 1859 When Catherine Wilmershire ran away from her London home in the middle of the night with a plan to establish her own life in America, she had not taken into consideration that the world was a dangerous place for a beautiful young woman alone and that plans could go awry. But she learned the next morning when she awoke in a brothel, snuggly wrapped in the arms of a handsome stranger. She had to make a decision. Was she going to give up and return home to her bleak future? Or was she going to continue to follow her plan of independence-even if led her straight into the arms of a handsome stranger?