Who is Joanna Jayne St John? Joanna's mother gives birth to twin boys, but desperately wants a daughter. Swearing the servants to secrecy, she informs her husband the Admiral he has a boy and a girl, and brings one child up as Joanna Jayne. Joanna finds love with a peer of the realm who initiates her into the world of the erotic. But he can't marry her because the bewitching girl is a boy. (A thing he most enjoys.) Set at the time of Nelson, the story is a mixture of history and lust. The reader will be transported to a bygone age but realise nothing much has changed. A man will generally be controlled by his nether regions.