In 1600s New England, an era when kissing in public is punishable by law, 20-year-old Rosalind Chandler finds herself experiencing strong desires - sinful ones - for a man who causes her to forget to breathe whenever she is near him. The problem is, he is not the man to whom she is betrothed...not the man who is blackmailing her to force her to marry him. Should she follow her heart and risk destroying her family? Or should she become the dutiful wife of a man she does not love to protect them?