When disturbingly attractive Patrick Hardy proposes marriage, Ruth discovers that he is not as allergic to emotional attachments as she first imagined… Unable to fight her attraction to him, Ruth allows herself to be swept away to the other side of the world to become his wife.
But her happiness is as at the cost of a terrible deception, and Ruth quickly realises she has put her marriage in jeopardy through a disastrous mistake. Can Patrick forgive her, or has she lost him for good?