This is an historical adventure/romance set in England in the late 1700s in which a rich aristocrat loses everything he has in a card game and then meets a lovely young highwaywoman who, as he is penniless, takes him with her as a bounty; but then they fall in love as he finds out her beauty and personal history and realises they have a lot in common. It all ends tragically but with a few surprises and twists along the way.