Lord Phillip Sandron had seen Miss Thalia Temple one day and become obsessed. He found himself ensnared by the sweet and ardently passionate face and the wide and desperately wanting brown eyes of this young woman. This rake now found that maybe he could learn to love and he married the sweet, innocent Tally on the spot. But as the two become closer and their bond of love and happiness grows stronger, Tally and Lord Phillip find their marriage threatened by forces from the past: Lord Phillip's old friends and lovers. For who cannot but become jealous of the reformation of a rake by his love for a sweet, young girl.