"I haven't come back into your life, James," Caroline said. She was shocked to discover that the position she had accepted as governess was the in the home of the man she had spent six years trying to forget.

Aware that nothing had really changed, that he could still create havoc with her life, Caroline's first instinct was to flee.

Then she found herself trapped - by his daughter's need of her and by the demands of his invalid wife. And by her own need of James!