The lovely Lindsay Granville rejected one suitor after another until she met Edward de Worth, Viscount Huxley, a man whom she loved with all her heart, to whom she submitted in body and soul. The girl had no idea that Edward decided to marry her... in order to take revenge on her half-brother! However, having started a cruel game, the Viscount became entangled in his own networks, and what began as revenge soon turned into a burning, violent passion for him.