When Susannah Leighton's gullible brother Stephen gambles away the family fortune, she wrongly blames the handsome Sir Gareth Carew for leading him astray. Susannah's marriage takes her to far-off India but when she returns she is a wealthy widow with revenge in mind. Determined to take back what was lost, and to punish Gareth for his part, she devises a cunning plan that will ruin Gareth and leave her victorious. But Gareth is not the villain she believed him to be, and breaking his heart soon involves the breaking of her own...