The tumultuous 1919 novel- one of Virago's trio of old-fashioned erotic best-sellers with E.M Hull's THE SHEIK and Elinor Glyn's THREE WEEKS- opens in India, as seapegrace Nick Ratcliffe rescues Muriel, the general's daughter, from dire peril. Repelled, yet fascinated by his mockery and ferocity- his way of an eagle- she agrees to a betrothal, then breaks it off for clean-cut Blake Grange. Back in England, Muriel gradually learns the truth of her feelings- and of Blake's. But when she returns to India Nick, now maimed in his country's service, is nowhere to be seen- until new peril strikes.
- ISBN10 1860491030
- ISBN13 9781860491030
- Publish Date 8 February 1996 (first published 8 November 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 May 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Virago Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English