Beautiful young Diana St. Aubin is at the mercy of Jared Talent, Earl of Burnleigh - and he has none. The seductively handsome earl has the power to send Diana to prison for a crime she did not commit unless she agrees to pose as his future bride. It is a pretence that Diana can barely tolerate, but it is even more clear that her protests and pleas have no hope of moving this lord who always gets what he wants, whether it is a fiancee, or his growing desire...