Lord Wexford loved wine, women and battle... but only if it did not threaten his freedom. For freedom - and especially freedom from marriage - was for him the greatest value in life.

However, the day came when fate gave the courageous warrior a meeting with the young and beautiful Philippa de Paris - the girl whom he was obliged to name his wife, for only in this way will he be able to fulfill the secret royal order.

At what moment will ardent passion flare up between the brave knight and his “reluctant lady”? The moment when the rays of the sun and the moon meet in the sky, when male strength and victorious female tenderness unite!