He had saved her, but he didn't love her.
Katherine Marsh was practically a slave to her brother's family in the small English country where she lived. Then she met Dr. Jason Fitzroy - and fell instantly in love.
Dr. Fitzroy found her a job at the hospital, and gave her a new sense of self-respect. He also gave her her first taste of freedom missing from her earlier years.
But Katherine knew she could never truly be free - not while her heart was a prisoner of love.