Anthony Hamilton is perhaps the most famous rake of London society. Husbands are wary of him and frivolous wives adore him. Young girls are kept away from him. And no one realizes that behind the scandalous revelries and affairs, Anthony hides the pain of a broken heart - his love for Celia Rees, a girl he knew from childhood and who was married off to another. Now Celia is widowed. She's free. And Anthony does not intend to retreat. He will win the heart of his beloved, even if for this he has to use all the most insidious tricks from the seducer’s arsenal...