Twenty-two-year-old Megan Kincaid received a slightly strange offer from Mr. Brendan Reid - to change her job as a seamstress to the position of nanny-governess for his orphan nephew. Feeling that the quiet, reserved boy needs her, the girl agrees and moves to live under the roof of a house owned by Brendan Reid and his wife Leslie. Leslie is also the mother of young Jeremy, who after the tragic death of her husband married his older brother. Selflessness and a kind heart help the heroine of the novel not only to reveal the secret of the house, in which everyone recognizes the child as the murderer of his father, but also to find devoted love and family.