When Marlena runs into the Marquess of Tannerton, a man she admired as a girl, she is a prisoner aboard a ship headed to London, where she will meet the gallows, and the memory of the night she was framed haunts her dreams. Just when it seems that all hope is lost, the ship gives a sickening lurch. After it is swallowed by the ocean, Marlena somehow finds herself alive, and she the marquess has washed up on the same stretch of shore. He swears to protect her, but he doesn’t know how serious her crime truly is. Experience the thrill of the chase in this getaway romance. (This work is a spin-off of Innocence and Impropriety.)