The graceful black-haired Viscountess Moira Tyndale was married for ten years, but, having become a widow, remained a virgin. Her husband - her friend, assistant, adviser - was a talented man... but he loved only slender young men.

And so, finally, fortune smiled on Moira. On the path of a charming but inexperienced widow, a real man appears - the brave, proud and dangerously seductive Ryland Winthrop. It seems that mutual love promises them paradise, but the sins of the young aristocrat’s youth and the Viscountess’s distrust of men interfere with the emerging feeling.

However, not all is lost - after all, love has already laid claim to its chosen ones...