Lady of Desire

the long version

Lady Jacinda Knight, a spoiled and sheltered beauty, defies her eldest brother and guardian by running away to avoid an arranged marriage. She makes it as far as a coaching inn before she falls prey to a young purse-snatcher. ​Headstrong Lady Jacinda Knight has got five fierce elder brothers who do not intend to let her follow in their scandalous mother's footsteps. When Robert begins negotiating her betrothal to his most trusted boyhood friend, Lord Griffith, who is as impeccable as he is--and not her type at all--she sees her wishes for her own future ignored, and sets out to flee to relatives in France. But her journey is cut short when a pickpocket at the coaching inn leads her on a merry chase into the rookery, where she falls into the clutches of "Billy Blade," a rough-and-tumble gang leader of the London underworld. But the thrilling bad boy is no ordinary outlaw...