Impetuous Cindy Clinton signed a marriage contract with a man she had never met in order to save her father's worldwide oil interests. Now, with her father dead, Cindy was determined to be free of Ken Stewart, her husband in name only. Then one day a tall, handsome stranger came to see Cindy. He said he was Ken Stewart's emissary and he urged her not to try for a divorce. Why, Cindy wondered, did Ken Stewart want her to stay married to him - a man she neither knew nor loved? Little did Cindy know that her search for the answer to that baffling riddle was to take her into the sinister world of international thugs, where more than her right to happiness was in danger - her life itself was threatened!