Lady Viola - a successful artist, a rich young widow - is about to get married. But her happiness is under threat: Duke Ian Wentworth, whom she and her sisters secretly held captive five years ago, has returned to take revenge for the shame of imprisonment. Viola is distraught because the Duke might expose her crime, and Ian realizes that his thirst for revenge is being replaced by the fire of passion. After all, they were already close in the past...