Description
After the heartbreak of his ex-fiancée’s sudden departure, Peter Burns, a young and independently wealthy Englishman, thinks he’s making a life for himself with a proposal to the socially ambitious Cynthia Drassilis. Almost at once he finds he must demonstrate his commitment to the match by planning to kidnap the combative, chain-smoking Ogden Ford—known as “The Little Nugget” by the kidnappers—the son of Cynthia’s patron and benefactor Nesta Ford and an American business tycoon.
After Cynthia’s first attempt to return Ogden to his mother is foiled by his father’s underlings, Peter decides that his best chance of success is to attend the boy’s boarding school as an instructor. He knows that while there he must...