Improper Advances

Escaping a scandal she did not cause, gifted singer Ana St. Albans abandons the London stageher lifelong homefor refuge and solitude on the Isle of Man as Oriana Julian, soldiers widow. Her landlord, wealthy mine owner and geologist Sir Darius Corlett, suspects shes an adventuress and a fortune-hunter. In her loneliness, Oriana responds to Dares advances. Certain that her indiscretion will have no lasting consequences, she returns to London