Ravena Brenin dearly loved the kindly guardian who had brought her up — and she loved his son Rhodri Brenin even more. But she was marrying a virtual stranger, the forbidding Sardinian Mark di Curzio, a man for whom she felt nothing but apprehension and dread. She was doing it for love — but for love of her guardian, whose life would be ruined if Mark told him, as he had threatened to, that it was his son who had been responsible for the tragic death of Mark's only child. The price for Mark's silence was a high one — for all he wanted of Ravena was that she bear him a son to replace the one he had lost. Could she bring herself to pay it?