On the night following her husband's death, Kitty Bancroft is introduced to Doctor Thane Ashbury. Thane is a man of very few words. And Kitty is a woman, who recently, is lost for them. In her grief, Kitty finds herself drawn to and curious about the young doctor. Her intuition tells her to leave well enough alone, but she can't find it in herself to have the good sense to listen to it. The more tangled she becomes in Doctor Ashbury's sticky web of lust, the more impossible it seems to forget him. Along the way, the curiosity Kitty has for the man she can't seem to stay away from doesn't wane. And as they say, "Curiosity always kills the kitty cat..."