Lady Eloise Bartholomew's trip to Australia on the shirttails of her adventurous brother ends in tragedy when he dies from a fever. But with the conventions of English society suspended on the high seas, she finds passio...Lady Eloise Bartholomew's trip to Australia on the shirttails of her adventurous brother ends in tragedy when he dies from a fever. But with the conventions of English society suspended on the high seas, she finds passion and excitement in the arms of a Rugged Ship's captain-only to be dumped back into the ton, still burning from the fire ignited in her and the loss of the only man she could ever love.more at home on his Ship than dallying with the ton, gabriel lyons, now the duke of dale, intended never to set foot in London again.