Miss Poppeia Pickford is sure she does not want a husband. She wants to be free of all such shackles. It is just a pity that polite society does not agree with her view and nor does her heart, when she encounters the dangerous highwayman whose laughing grey eyes seem to penetrate her soul. Little does Poppeia know she will soon be taking to the highways of England herself - with Blackstrap Jack's own pistol in her hand. Nor that a very dangerous lord is out there, waiting for her