Giles Corlys, Lord Traherne, returned to London to fulfill the will of his late father - to marry Lady Sophia d'Artier, a girl he had never met in his life, to enter into a bleak arranged marriage with the sole purpose of producing heir. But under the mask of a fragile and helpless creature hides the real Sophia - charming and daring, the only woman who managed to awaken true passion and true love in Giles...