This haunting "Beauty and the Beast" tale set in the remote British moors tells of beautiful Erienne, whose father forces her to wed the richest suitor. Now Lady Saxon, she is the mistress of a great manor all but ruined by fire, wife to a man whose mysteriously shrouded form arouses both her fear and her pity. Yet even as she falls in love with her adoring husband, Erienne despairs of freeing her heart from the dashing Yankee who can't forget her. Once filled with young dreams of romance, now a wife and woman she must make a devastating choice: between love and honor...duty and desire.