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?