Twenty-year-old Rachel Talbot, the daughter of a baron, has just graduated from a school for young ladies. She wants to see the world and responds to an offer to become a governess for the children of a young widower, the ruler of the Asian state of Guria. Fascinated by the virtues of Rachel, who helped him get closer to his family, the handsome sheikh, unbeknownst to himself, falls in love with an Englishwoman. Previously, Malik had difficulty understanding what mutual love was, because he and his first wife had an arranged, dynastic marriage. Brave and bright Rachel awakened the feelings of the sheikh, but the girl herself lost her head from the first minute she saw him...