Duke Richard III Redcliff needed a wife to produce a heir and spare and then disappear. He had no illusion of a happy marriage, never he expected a woman to remain loyal to him after providing him a heir. He was happy to share his night time amorous partners with his friends. Until he found a beauty jumping from a boat, who suddenly made him a very possessive man, of her. Was it possible that he had finally found someone who would belong to him? Or she would stumble into someone else's bed?