The beautiful Lisette Kersin was proud, like a true Creole, too proud to agree to marry a man whom she hated and despised. She preferred the patronage of the gloomy Maximilian Voleran, about whose furious temper and dark past there were frightening legends. Maximilian terrifies the girl, but marriage with this mysterious man turned out to be her last hope for salvation. Could Lisette have imagined that her fear would soon turn into an ardent, all-consuming passion?