Synopsis: The Most Noble Baron Falcon Falcon of Malta,handsome, rich, aristocratic, was undoubtedly a man to be reckoned with. But he had treated Tara's young sister shamefully, and Tara was determined to be revenged on him. But her carefully laid plans went disastrously awry, and instead she found herself married to him, with all that that entailed. For her husband, quite apart from not loving her any more than she loved him, combined the arrogance of a Spanish Grandee, the thieving instincts of a corsair, and the Arab's contemptuous belief that woman's sole purpose inlife was to pander to the pleasures of man . . .