Lucien Marwane and his childhood friend Catherine were always inseparable - but what could the youngest son, having no right to either a title or a family estate, offer his beloved? Lucien chose to go to war, and Catherine, who did not even suspect his feelings, married someone else. But over time, much has changed. Catherine is widowed and free again, and the hero of the Napoleonic wars, Lucien, who returned to England, is far from the timid boy he once was, but a real man, brave, strong, self-confident and ready to do anything to win the one he dreamed of. for many years...