 17th-century beauty Barbara Worth starts her career of crime by stealing her best friend s bridegroom. Her next exploit is to recover gambling losses by donning mask and cloak and taking to the roads as a highwayman! The thrill of these ventures proves addictive...especially when she meets a male highwayman who becomes her lover. Together, the two desperados lead a gay secret life, pursued by the local magistrate Sir Ralph Skelton...Barbara s husband! To what further crimes will the wicked Lady Skelton descend?