Juliana St. John was raised to be a proper, impeccable wife who would make her family and society proud. After a long engagement, she finally walked down the aisle, only to discover that the groom abandoned her at the most important moment of her life.
That day, she met her first love again, the daring and passionate Scotsman Elliot McBride, and then she had an idea: she asked him to marry her to save her from an uncertain future!
Elliot McBride has just escaped from a brutal captivity in India and has returned to Scotland wealthy but tormented - essentially a broken man. Juliana offers him her help in exchange for the marriage proposal, both to restore his castle and to help him find himself again.

And so, they will both play their last card to have a second chance at love...