"How much do you want to leave my brother alone ?" This was Melanie's first encounter with the rich, arrogant Grant Pendleton, king of the Pendleton Timber Company, who had mistaken her for her sister Suzanne, in love with Grant's younger brother, Tim - the brother Grant considered weak willed and incapable of running his own life, or choosing a girl not after his money. Melanie's dislike of this man who dares to try and ruin her sister's happiness and her determination to keep Suzanne and Tim together at all costs, forces her to practise a deliberate deception, a deception that brings many stormy moments as she matches with Grant Pendleton — the man who always wins his battles, by his own ruthless set of rules.