While sorting out things after the death of her parents, Laura Campion came across letters from which she learned that the daughter she had born out of wedlock had not died, as she had been assured. Shocked, Laura went in search of the child. She soon learned that the girl was being raised by Lord Avery Wickham, the cousin of her deceased lover. Lady Campion met Wickham. And she immediately became friends with little Alice. The young woman, suffering after so many losses, was ready to do anything to become a mother to her child. But Lord Campion loves the girl and will not give her up. Laura cannot openly admit her sin - this will ruin her reputation, and therefore Alice’s future. She decides to seduce Wickham and marry him to herself. So she will get a wonderful husband and find her daughter...