Lovely and innocent Esme Brentmore seemed the MOST INSUITABLE travel companion for the cynical adventurer Varian St. George, who shamelessly uses women for his own purposes, but only he could become a support and protection for a lonely girl trying to uncover the mystery of her father's death. And it seems that the very sky of romantic Italy is ready to unite Esme and Varian with bonds of ardent and tender love - and awaken long-forgotten kindness and honor in the cruel mocker, and the power of female passion in the proud touchy one.