Sophie Dupont, daughter of a family portrait painter, helps her father in his studio room, keeping her own artwork out of sight. She often strolls the cliffside path along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets. It’s where she met the good-looking Wesley Overtree, the 1st man to tell her she’s beautiful. Captain Stephen Overtree is usually accustomed to taking on his brother’s neglected duties. Home on leave, he’s sent to find Wesley. Understanding his sibling rented a cottage from a fellow painter, he about The Painter’s Child moves to Devonshire and meets Miss Dupont, the painter’s child. He’s startled to recognize her from a smaller portrait he bears with him-one of Wesley’s discarded works. But his happiness plummets when he realizes Wesley provides remaining her with kid and sailed aside to Italy searching for a fresh muse. Wanting to do something beneficial with his existence, Stephen proposes to Sophie. He will not give love, or perhaps a long term jointly, but he can save her from scandal. If he dies in fight, as he believes he’ll, she’ll be considered a respectable widow using the safety of his family members. Desperate for a way to get away her predicament, Sophie agrees to marry a stranger and happen to be his family’s property. But at Overtree Hall, her problems are just starting. Can she regret marrying Captain Overtree when a repentant Wesley comes back? Or will she find herself torn between your dad of her kid and her developing passion for the husband she barely knows?