Storm Castle - home of the Trevarwiths - on the wild Cornish coast. A bride and bridegroom driving up to the doors...a white-faced child peering from a turret window... the first dread meeting between the bride and her red-haired vixen of a step-mother...

After the death of her father, young Celia Trevarwith was tortured by the tragedy of his loss. In later years, she was cared less for the inheritance that was jealously denied her then a for the sweet rapturous love she longed for but had never known. During the Second World War, the Free-French fisherman, Paul Manton comes to the district. Then he met the orphan heiress on the desolate Cornish coast, and she falls madly in love with him. But she knew at once from the way he held her that he was not what he seemed. Yet she dared not ask the question that seared her waking dreams: Would the dashing Frenchman open his soul...as well as his arms...to enfold her in a world of tender love? She then embarks on a passionate struggle for her love and happiness with Paul, always up against her step-mother's opposition.