After her parents' death in a car accident, Nicola takes a job as secretary to the romantic novelist Lucy Treryn. The old lady seems pleasant, if a little brusque, and Nicola finds herself falling in love with her quiet, schoolteacher grandson, Zachary. But her other grandson, Alex, is quite a different character. An arrogant, good-looking charmer, he is determined to seduce Nicola, and won't take no for an answer -- until an unpleasant scene leaves him humiliated and Nicola shaken. But Alex is not a man to take rejection lightly...