This is the tale of a couple with everything but money, an heiress with everything but love and a temptation no one could resist. When Kate falls in love with a common journalist, she faces an impossible choice: either marry the man she loves, or give him up to take her rightful place in society. The struggle between her head and her heart is a conflict between 19th Century values and 20th Century passions. Their highly charged love affair is forbidden and necessarily discreet until the arrival of a young American heiress nursing one tragic secret. She offers them a temptatious solution that will lead all three into a world of dizzying possibility and unexpected consequence.