Beautiful Evangeline Pemberton runs from her cruel stepfather to her late mother's friend - and finds herself drawn into her treacherous game. Lady Stanton is trying with all her might to arrange the marriage of her naive daughter and Gavin Lioncroft, a very wealthy man, and wants Evangeline to help her with this. However, the plans of the cunning lady fail. From the very first minute that Evangeline and Gavin saw each other, they were engulfed in the flames of irresistible passion...