Usually love affairs end with a wedding, but this time everything just began with a wedding. From a wedding that had nothing to do with love. Jane Tindall needed a husband to repay a debt to a card sharper who had won her a fortune. Edmund Ware, Baron Kirkpatrick, had his own reasons for urgent marriage, and proposed a fictitious marriage to the desperate girl. At first, the married couple simply played love in front of the world. But soon a mysterious enemy began to hunt Edmund, and Jane suddenly realized how close and dear her husband had really become to her - a man for whose salvation she was ready to do anything...