While Fern, a British governess, is staying at an oasis in Q'Amara for work, she meets King Zafir, a widower. They unexpectedly fall in love, but Fern had always been taught that lust is a sin, so she is still a virgin at the age of twenty-three. The day before Zafir leaves the oasis, she passionately gives herself to him and ends up pregnant with his child! The child she carries is proof of their taboo... What will Fern do after leaving Q'Amara, since she can't tell Zafir about the child?