Sebastian Hunter has shown his last hand at the card table. Nights once spent womanizing and gambling are now spent in the dark shadows of Blackloch Hall, staring out onto the wild windswept Scottish moors.
That is, until the mysterious Phoebe Allardyce his mother's new and far–too–pretty companion interrupts his brooding. After catching her thieving, the master of the house has no choice but to keep a close eye on this provocative little temptress .