Honoria Ardmore hid behind her outer coldness and arrogance the sad secret of a brief passion for a charming pirate... A passion that ended in a secret wedding and the death of her husband - at least, Honoria believed so... And four years later, Captain Christopher Rain, as if resurrected from the dead , appears at his wife’s house and demands her return. But Honoria has long forgotten the “mistake of her youth” and does not intend to spend her whole life in the arms of the “gentleman of fortune”! Christopher, of course, could force the beauty by blackmail or take her by force... However, he wants not the forced submission of his wife, but her love...