Years ago, Miss Esme Astell fell hopelessly in love with Charles Brittle, an unassuming and highly respectable London bookmaker. Then he disappeared without a word . . . The last thing Esme ever dreamed was to meet Charlie again— In a dark alleyway— In a drenching rain— In a chase with the police— In Scotland. Can she fall again, this time for the dangerous scoundrel he’s become?