Every father dreams that his daughters will be well settled. And the Earl of Swanley is no exception.

However, the earl's middle daughter, the stubborn Lady Rosalind, flatly refuses to marry the respectable Griff Knighton, whom her father chose as her husband. The girl much prefers the romantic adventurer who calls himself Knighton's friend.

Rosalind becomes increasingly entangled in the networks of passion and temptation, not even suspecting that the attractive rake, to whom she dreams of belonging body and soul, and the rejected groom - the same man, playing a cunning game of seduction with her...