Janet Lister is recovering from an unhappy love affair, so she is delighted when a secretarial agency offers her a job as personal assistant to glamorous best-selling novelist, Carla Ryder. But when she gets to Carla's villa on the Greek isle of Spetse, she finds that the house is full of tension and intrigue. The handsome Paul Stravopolous sweeps her off her feet, but can he be trusted? Sometimes he is warm and loving, but next moment he appears to be deliberately avoiding her and he cannot – or will not – explain the paradox. What is the tension between him and the Greek maid, Elena, and what is his true relationship with Carla herself? And what is the secret which everyone in the villa seems determined to keep from her?