The modest Megan Fenwick had no intention of getting married at all, much less the most rumored vicious man in London society! But only at the cost of marriage to Lord Barrett Rothschild could she save not only herself, but also her dissolute brother, who had been completely lost, from ruin. Megan walked down the aisle with Barrett with horror, not even suspecting that it was in his arms that she would find the happiness of great, passionate love - love, which will become for her the true and only meaning of life...