When Helen Freeman books a room in a Paris hotel, she finds that a handsome stranger has prior claim to it. This virile, determined man threatens to take advantage of the situation. But Helen is wary - especially when she discovers that he is Alexander Marianatos, the wealthy, sophisticated Greek shipping magnate. When she sees him again, she realizes that she is irresistibly drawn to him. Yet she knows that she should leave forever the man whose love affairs were public gossip and who even now seemed to be involved with the exquisite ballerina, Natasha Chernitzky.