Knowing there is no future for her and the married man she had fallen for, Caroline flees to far-off Mexico. At first she is grateful for the job of companion to the young daughter of Don Esteban de Montejo – but soon Caroline begins to wonder if she is in a worse situation than the one she has just escaped! There is something disturbingly wrong about the entire Motejo family – all, that is, except Don Esteban’s intriguingly handsome brother Luis. But Luis is barred to Caroline for every kind of reason…