Gwaltney Harris has struggled all his life to acquire wealth but still cannot purchase the respectability he desires.   Desperate, he weds the shrewish but well-bred Cordelia Ashton, who has concealed a warm nature beneath a spinsterish exterior.  Gwaltney, however, has secrets of his own, and he doesn’t dare grow too close to Cordelia.  Despite this, they begin to fall in love, but can their relationship survive a mysterious assailant who will stop at nothing to kill Gwaltney?  

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