If the young orphan Kistna had been told that the mysterious benefactor the Marquess of Alchester, who had rescued the girl from the poverty of a squalid orphanage and promised her protection and patronage, was simply trying to use her as a weapon in the fight against his sworn enemy, she would have refused to believe the slanderer. If If the cynic, rake and gambler Alchester had been predicted that the innocent charm of Kistna, in which he at first saw only a means to achieve his own goal, would conquer his heart with the power of genuine Feeling, he would only have laughed. However, love has its own laws. Love - True Love - comes uninvited and unexpected!..