When beautiful nineteen-year-old Roberta? s beloved father, the Earl of Wentworth, dies, she is left alone and bereft in North Africa. Now she must travel to America to live with her aunt, Lady Margaret. On finally arriving, she is dismayed to find that she hasdied, her preacher husband has disappeared and that a cruel local Minister lives there instead, savagely mistreating Lady Margaret? syoung adopted son, Danny When the Minister dies of a heart attack, Roberta flees with young Danny and his loyal dog, posing as the boy? smother and, finding herself lost and in danger, she calls at anisolated shack for help. When the door opens, she is staggered tosee the handsome stranger, Adam, she had encountered on the train from New Orleans ? and that he is a talented Impressionist artist. Before long, love blossoms, bringing a new set of problems thatsend Roberta fleeing once more. It seems that her love for Adam is not to be ?
