After her parents’ deaths, the young Hortense is forced to leave for her uncle—a cruel and greedy marquis de Losarge—who dreams of taking possession of her inheritance. In the harsh mountainous region, the girl faces more than just sorrow. She meets a remarkable man, Jean, the Prince of Night, the lord of wolves—who becomes her only, though secret, love and the father of her son. But to escape the marquis’s greedy hands, whose conscience is stained with more than one murder, Hortense has to part with her beloved.
The search for the murderer of her parents leads Hortense to Paris, but fate inevitably pulls her back—to Jean, the Prince of Night…