Nicole Herriot took a dislike to Pierre Dubois the moment she met him, and worked hard to free her uncle's world-famous couture firm from his influence. Then she found, belatedly, that her feelings towards him were changing ... yet she could not turn aside from the path she had marked out. Her loyalty was still to the House of Lorraine, and to Lucien Chausson whom she had promised to marry. While Pierre, it seemed, was himself bound to the glamorous Janice Worth. Would the situation ever sort itself out?