Obychno lyubovnyye romany zakanchivayutsya svad'boy, no na sey raz so svad'by vse tol'ko nachalos'. So svad'by, kotoraya ne imela k lyubvi nikakogo otnosheniya. Dzheyn Tindall nuzhdalas' v muzhe, chtoby otdat' dolg kartochnomu shuleru, vyigravshemu u neye tseloye sostoyaniye. Edmund Uer, baron Kirkpatrik, imel sobstvennyye prichiny, chtoby srochno zhenit'sya i predlozhil otchayavsheysya devushke fiktivnyy brak. Ponachalu supruzheskaya para prosto razygryvala lyubov' pered svetom. No vskore na Edmunda stal okhotit'sya tainstvennyy vrag, i Dzheyn vdrug ponyala, naskol'ko v deystvitel'nosti stal yey blizok i dorog yeye muzh, – chelovek, radi spaseniya kotorogo ona gotova na vse…
