Beautiful Gero Batten, an impeccable lady of London society, is preparing to become the wife of an equally impeccable, albeit incredibly boring Marquis, but one day she meets his younger brother, the famous rake Griffin Remmington, Lord Reading...Griffin certainly cannot be called impeccable: scandalous fame, violent pranks, unbridled temper. What does such a man have in common with a well-bred girl? However, very soon Gero and Griffin, constantly waging a verbal duel, are forced to admit: they are madly in love with each other and there is no hiding from this love...