Having spent her childhood in care, Ashley Jones has no-one. She desperately needs her new live-in job as an authors assistant, but is filled with trepidation when she arrives at isolated Blackwood Manor and meets the formidable Jack Marchant. Ashley thinks she is just a drab nobodybut her heart goes out to anguished, tortured Jack. One day a private kiss becomes a passionate affair, an affair that is as secret as it is forbidden