It all started when Mary MacKay was sent to the Republic of Seralippe as England's first lady ambassador; it was a most satisfactory climax to a brilliant Foreign Office career. But the seemingly staid Miss MacKay never expected to be the victim of a bizarre kidnapping that threatened to become an international incident. Nor did she have any notion that an attractive an unorthodox anthropologist named David Ross was going to turn her ambassadorial career upside down, and complicate her life in a most delightful way.