Jasper Renshaw Viscount Vale has a problem: he needs to marry & produce an heir to the title. All Jasper wants is to find a lady who will put up with him long enough to wed so he can return to his customary life of drinking & womanizing. Melisande Fleming on the other hand has been secretly in love with Jasper for years. Knowing that Jasper is under pressure to marry Melisande grasps her fate with both hands & volunteers to wed him even though she means nothing to him. Although Jasper is initially only interested in producing an heir their wedding night is pleasant if not earth-shattering & he oddly enough finds himself curious about his wife. What does Melisande do all day? What does she think about? Melisande however has everything she told herself shed be content with: marriage to the man she loves. But to her chagrin she wants more from the Jasper. More of his time more of his thoughts & heart & really while were on the subject more lovemaking. Thus she sets out to seduce her husband by night even as he starts turning up in her life during the day.