The child of a broken marriage, seventeen–year–old Tamsyn wasn't at all looking forward to going to Wales to visit the father she hardly knew–until she arrived there and met Hywel Benedict.

Her first feelings of antagonism towards him soon changed into something so deep and violent that they threatened to overwhelm her completely, and it was clear that she affected him in some way –– but marriage? No, he said. He was too old for her, her father's contemporary, not hers. It would not be fair. And besides, there were –– other complications.

Or did it all add up to the fact that he didn't really want her?