The beautiful Lady Tierney refused to go to the altar with incredible stubbornness for a young girl. The courageous Lord Holden valued the freedom of his single life more than anything else. The marriage of a beauty who does not recognize male authority over herself, and a knight who does not believe in the power of female love, was determined by the king himself! What's next? Spousal feud? Perhaps... But from hatred to passion there is ONE STEP. And the stronger the hatred, THE FIERCE THE PASSION...