Accused of a crime she didn"t commit, Cassandra has come to Australia"s balmy shores as a convict, no longer fit to become any man"s bride. Her only comfort is serving out her sentence as a house-keeper to a kind and handsome doctor who treats her as an equal. Night after night, his tender attentions awaken her in a deep abiding passion, though she knows she could never belong to such a respectable man...no matter how much his eyes seem to say otherwise...