While stranded in one of Cairo's most infamous prisons, the ever-so handsome Rupert Carsington meets a brilliant academic named Daphne Pembroke. Daphne has an intriguing and dangerous proposition for Rupert: Help her save her kidnapped brother in return for his own freedom. As tensions rise and dangers lurk in the sizzling Egyptian sun, romance blossoms in the most delightful and uninhibited ways.