Madelyn is living under the cruel tyranny of her brother, Baron Louddon, when Baron Duncan Wexton makes an appearance under a flag of truce. The two men have been feuding, but the truce lasts only a short time. Duncan is taken captive, undressed and tied to a post in the courtyard where the soldiers plan to let him freeze to death. They soon bore of the waiting and go inside where it's warmer. Madelyne slips out to Duncan, cuts him free and takes him to the visiting priests' room where she puts his cold feet to her bare belly in an attempt to warm him. Duncan will say later that it's the most unselfish act he'd ever seen and that he'd begun falling in love with Madelyn from that moment.
In actuality, Duncan is out to.....
