Troubled times. Stacey Harrison has two good reasons for feeling nervous about coming home; her new job with the House of Ninon, one of San Francisco's top fashion houses, and her widowed father's marriage to a woman she has never met. As it turns out, everything about Kay Harrison is lovely -- looks, voice, manners, clothes. Why, then, can't Stacey warm up to her? Caught up in the excitement of the world of fashion, Stacey doesn't have time to worry about it. That world fascinates her ... and so does David MacLean, Madame Ninon's handsome but rude nephew. Fascination, however, turns to dismay when Stacey learns one of her designs has been stolen. And the shock hasn't quite worn off when she begins to suspect another, more serious, kind of betrayal closer to home.