Everybody in town knew Paul Maitland, the big, hard-drinking, warm-hearted ex-war hero who lived with his widowed mother. A few knew another Paul Maitland and the life he led on the wrong side of town with his "kept woman" and her teenage daughter. Only one knew the real Paul Maitland, the restless wildly passionate man who fled beyond the bound sof morality for the strongest love of all.