0Lucinda is in an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't understand. They share a dispassionate camaraderie, but gradually her opinion begins to change. When his life is endangered her feelings intensify - ones that she's trying to ignore... Laurence's father taunted him with the words 'second choice'. Love is irrelevant until Lucinda captures his heart. He decides to beg her for a second chance and hopes she realizes his motives are not from a sense of obligation.