Having spent her childhood in care, Ashley Jones has no–one. She desperately needs her new live–in job as an author's assistant, but is filled with trepidation when she arrives at isolated Blackwood Manor and meets the formidable Jack Marchant.

Ashley thinks she is just a drab nobodybut her heart goes out to anguished, tortured Jack. One day a private kiss becomes a passionate affair an affair that is as secret as it is forbidden