The prim widow. The vicious marquis. He saves her from robbers, but can she save him from himself? When Violet Lawrence encounters bandits on the road, a handsome stranger comes to her rescue. In a fight, he is seriously injured, as a result of which he loses his memory, and Violet takes him to her home to cure him. But the closer they get, the more she fears the inevitably approaching moment when he will leave her. Marquis Kitrick, a gambler and libertine, flatly refuses to marry, contrary to the demands of his family. He likes a free life and does not want to commit himself to obligations. A road adventure leads him, wounded and memory loss, to the house of a strict widow. Every day the passion flares up between them, but will Keith be able to sacrifice his independence for the sake of Violet, when he remembers who he is, or will he return to his old way of life and destroy that fragile love that he did not hope to find?