Quinella, the lovely heiress to a huge fortune, had no intention of getting married, because she did not trust men. But there was not much to choose from - either marriage with the hero of the Indian wars, the famous Major Rex Daviton, or the humiliating position of the mistress of a German prince. And only when Quinella accidentally learned that Rex was in danger of death at the hands of a killer, she suddenly acutely felt how painfully dear this man had become to her...