Petula is young, breathtakingly beautiful and, after her father’s death, stricken… with grief and with poverty too. The family Manor all but falling down, she’s at the mercy of her dissolute loser of an uncle, who plans to sell her off in marriage and pocket the lion’s share of her dowry!

Then Fate in the shape of a carriage crash brings a dashing Major to Petula’s door – and so begins Petula’s thrilling rollercoaster ride through the Twists and Turns of Love.