For all her twenty-three years Justine Field had been completely under the thumb of her elderly, domineering father with the result that she had never begun to learn to make the best of herself and was a stranger to any form of emotion. But it didn't help at all when she over-heard David Cassano pointing all this out to a friend! So why did she have to fall in love with him - a fabulously wealthy, attractive man of the world, with scores of beautiful women waiting to fall into his arms; the one man, in fact, who could never make her happy and could hurt her far more than her father had ever done?