When pretty young widow Penny Chapman returns to her beloved Greensfield Hall she struggles to make ends meet, and reluctantly has to consider selling the house and land she loves so much.

Roger Fenleigh entered Penny's life as an enemy, someone out to destroy her happiness. But he begins to throw her emotions into confusion when he starts to behave more like friend than foe. And yet everything in her life started going wrong when he appeared, and the finger of suspicion points towards the one person Penny longs to trust.