An outrageous book called “The Secrets of the Wedding Night” upset the engagement of Devon Morgan - and not only him. All over London, high-society young ladies buy up this anonymous pamphlet, read it and... prefer to remain old maids, just to avoid the horror of the first night in the marital bed. It's time to stop this nightmare - and Devon Morgan decides to save the capital's unfortunate suitors. He knows very well who the author of the scandalous lampoon is - of course, the beautiful young widow Lily Andrews, Countess Merrill, who once refused to become his wife! Devon comes up with a cunning plan - to take revenge on Lily by seducing and falling in love with him, and then showing her really, what exactly she lost by rejecting his advances, and what she still clearly does not know about the passion that makes a man and a woman happy...