This story began on a ship sailing to the shores of the New World, when young Rebecca Neville promised a dying woman to replace the mother of her newborn child... Years passed - and now Earl Stanmore, who had finally found his missing son, demanded that Rebecca return heir.

Rebecca is ready to hate the count - after all, he has turned her entire well-ordered life upside down! But strangely, instead of hatred, the girl’s heart is taken over by passion for this stern man. The passion is ardent and frantic. A passion that promises long-awaited happiness not only to Rebecca, but also to Stanmore.