"Every moment, every second...I fall more deeply, more overwhelmingly in love". How could she love a man she had never met until that afternoon, Athena asked herself. A man whose slim, athletic body made the fire in her breast burst into falem, She knw it was fate which had brought them together. Lady Mary Emmeline Athena, a great heriess, had arrived in Greece to marry the Prince of Panassus. Disillusioned by the palace gossips she runs away to Delphi, the shrine of Apollo. There she finds and loses the handsome Orion, and has a frightening encounter with a dangerous bandit before her true love holds Athena close against his throbbing heart.