Publisher's Synopsis
Lucy Parsons, the daughter of an impoverished country vicar, is employed by Lady Eugenia Hampton to be governess to her young son, Justin. When Lucy is attacked by her employer's drunken husband one night, she is rescued by Ralph Graham, a house guest from Australia. She falls in love with the handsome Ralph, and when her love is returned she is the happiest she has ever been. But then she hears he already has a fiancee, and her world collapses...