Marrying a highwayman awaiting execution is Miss Katherine Cunningham's only hope for that way her crippling debts will die with him. But it turns out that her new husband, Nicholas Lydgate, is innocent and the son of a duke! Katherine is determined to save his life, although this will make a temporary husband into a permanent one! Truth be known, she is attracted to Nicholas, but she won't hold him to a union made in such circumstances until he shows he cares for her.