Madelyn Grey expected to create a stir when she presented herself at the mansion of Owen Prince, governor of Kentucky and candidate for U.S. President, to announce that she was his long-lost daughter. But she could not anticipate the reaction of the governor's adopted son, Taylor Champion, a powerful newspaper publisher.

Madelyn's unscheduled appearance and seemingly false claim aroused Taylor first to anger, then to something much deeper — potentially more dangerous and inescapably more demanding. Every other mystery, even the question of her own paternity, paled beside the mysterious hold he took on her heart.