She was trapped into a lie! Rowan's stepmother, Antonia Winslow, was selfishand totally unscrupulous. It suited her purposes to pretend that Rowan wasonly sixteen years old. But it was nineteen-year-old Rowan who suffered thebacklash of the lie. Forced by Antonia's conniving to live in the isolatedhousehold of famous painter Carne Maitland, Rowan was helplessly drawn bythe force of his personality. But what was the use of falling in love withhim when Carne assumed he was merely the object of Rowan's adolescentfantasies?