Grey wisps of fog clung to Maria Thorne as icy fear clutched at her heart. Her sixteen-year-old sister had disappearaed into Londons seething demi-monde of sin and white slavery. Scotland Yards only solution was Marias last, desperate hope ... and his name was Jocko Walton.

A self-confessed rogue who knew his way around the dark, secret underside of town, Jocko scorned the toffs and titled ladies. But the genteel Miss Thorne impressed him. She was gold to his brass ... sweet innocence in his street-roughened arms.

Unlikely partners, the lady and the thief would descend into the depths of a city both sinister and seductive. Drawn together by danger and misadventure, their fears and doubts melted beneath the gentle touch of lovers hands. In theh moonlight they were man and woman, joined by the ageless call of passion. But come the morning, would the world celebrate the trimph of their hard-won love?