Bianca and Rosalinda were the only treasures left to their mother after her husband, the Duke of Monteferro, was murdered. Fleeing to Northern Italy to raise her daughters, she swore revenge on the enemy who'd brought her low. From out of the swirling snow, a stranger appeared wrapped only in a bearskin. To Bianca he appeared a gallant suitor, to her mother he was the son of an assassin. But to Rosalinda he was the one who could light the fires of passion.