Suzanna Redmon was not a beauty and knew this from childhood so well that by the age of twenty-six she resigned herself to the fate of an old maid and decided to devote herself to her orphaned sisters. But suddenly the mysterious Ian Connelly, a convict acquired at an auction, enters the girl’s life. It would seem that a bandit is a bandit. But there is something strangely attractive in a forced laborer, some secret is hidden behind his unexpectedly aristocratic manners...