Beautiful, young, yet fiercely independent, Shikara Bartlett sorely misses her much-loved father, the renowned archaeologist Professor Richard Bartlett, who appears to have gone missing on his latest dig in Egypt.
What's worse is that in his absence her strait-laced guardian is determined to marry her off to the middle-aged Lord Stroud, who is pompous, boring and far too old at forty-four.
She certainly does not love him - and she never will.
So Shikara tries to escape, using a rope from h.
204.the marquis who hated woman, paperback/Barbara Cartland
