Marquis Winchcombe, a cynic and a rake, was proud that he could experience only one pure and bright feeling—love for art. Could he have imagined that a chance meeting with the young fair-haired Lucia, who fervently begs him, the fabulously wealthy patron, to save a talented but unrecognized artist from starvation, would turn his love for art into Love itself—passionate, tender, all-consuming, one that overcomes any obstacles…?