The heroine of this fascinating novel, Paulette Harrison, was faced with a dilemma: to marry a man whom she had known since childhood and for whom she felt sincere friendly sympathy, or to throw in her lot with the handsome Italian Franco Bellini, who attracted her physically, but immensely frightening in its persistence. She chose the first option and, as it turned out, she was cruelly mistaken...Six years have passed, and fate brings her together with Franco Bellini again...