Alyson Hampton was a scorned love child... until a vast legacy made her the fabulously wealthy Lady Hampton, pursued by the most rapacious fortune hunters in the realm. This exquisite innocent was in desperate need of rescue - and it came from a startling source.Handsome and bold Lord Rory Maclean was an adventurer whom the world called a rogue and worse. It was on his sleek smuggler's ship that she fled and England of danger... and in his arms found a paradise of passion on a voyage to a new world of love...