Life is too short for a long story. Why not sit down and enjoy a short tale? As Baptista travels home to marry her parents' old neighbour, she encounters her lost lover. They elope together, but tragedy strikes unexpectedly on their wedding day and she returns to her parents to do her duty. Will her other, brief love remain a secret? United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...时间太少，小说太长，不如读一篇短故事。
巴普蒂斯塔嫁给了一个比自己大20多岁的男人，却因为结婚前的小插曲而忐忑终日，殊不知她的丈夫隐瞒她的是四段更为悲剧的插曲......