It was a far cry from London to Crags' Height Barbara Mansfield found, when she came to work as companion to Miss Berresford, the mistress of the remote house in the Welsh mountains. But soon she found herself forgetting the past in the presence of Dominic, Miss Berresford's nephew -- Dominic, whose aloofness she found impossible to penetrate. What was the reason for this challenging reserve? Was it because of Gina de Courcey, that soignee beauty who returned suddenly from Dominic's past? Or was it because of something quite different?

Whatever it was, Barbara knew that her happiness could never be complete until all the barriers between Dominic and herself were broken down.