After traveling to Italy for an interview, Maddie receives a warm welcome from a person calling himself Count Valieri. He treats her to a five-star hotel and tickets to the opera. But when Maddie falls asleep in the car he sends to pick her up, she wakes up lying in a strange bed, with an unfamiliar young man attending to her. He tells a confused Maddie this: "You'll stay here until we're finished negotiating with your father-in-law." She soon learns she's at the count's mansion... Maddie is his prisoner now!