Once upon a time, young Elizabeth Harwood and Lord Roland Penhallow were considered the most beautiful couple in London society, but fate prepared for them a tragic separation. But one day, years later, chance brought them together again under the roof of a small Italian hotel, and a fiery passion, seemingly long left in the past, flared up with renewed vigor. Will they find happiness now? After all, Elizabeth is married to a powerful aristocratic tyrant and even the shadow of a scandal can ruin her...