On a bright summer's day a young girl, carefree and smiling, receives an ominous warning from an old gypsy woman - a warning that she will never be able to forget. Some years later, another young woman is caught up, unwittingly, in Alex's sinister story. Imogen Voisey arrives at Upton Stowey House as governess to little Janine, daughter of the dangerously attractive Bradley Palmer. Janine's mother Alexandra died in mysterious circumstances - and now Brad's second wife, Rosalie, has also disappeared. Rumours abound concerning the role of Brad Palmer in the fate of his two wives. Against her will - and despite the powerful emotions his presence arouses in her - Imogen is forced to confront these rumours and establish, for herself and for Janine, the truth...