On that warm summer night on the deserted shore of a picturesque lake, the mysterious Jerid Inman suddenly and swiftly burst into the world of the cheerful and beautiful in her naivety of seventeen-year-old Bess Hart, whose attention she had not hoped for. He was known as a dangerous man: there were dark rumors about his allegedly dubious past and involvement in murder. And the seductive Inman, who intrigued the girl, suddenly disappeared from her horizon. An officer of a special unit, he is investigating the mysterious death of his uncle, a prominent businessman... Seven years have passed. All these years, proud Bess never uttered the name of the tall, broad-shouldered tough guy, trying to get him out of her head and never remember. In her green youth, she dreamed of a man with a character and temperament to match her own, and now a young educated woman, who had experienced several light hobbies and disappointments, but had not yet seriously loved, was sure that marriage was not her destiny at all. But fate brings her together with Jerid again, and against the backdrop of an exciting fight against corruption, a passionate feeling, permeated with refined eroticism, flares up with renewed vigor...