To avoid marrying a rich, depraved old man, young lady Aurora was ready for anything—even to become the wife of an adventurer, Nicholas, who agreed to disappear forever from her life the morning after the wedding. But Love has its own laws. The law of burning passion that seizes a man and a woman in a single night. The law of unimaginable happiness—memory of which remains vivid even in separation. The law of fate that binds Aurora and Nicholas forever through the force of wild pleasure…