'You have made a big mistake...However, if you want to play games, that's fine with me. I always get what I want eventually,' Garrick Raven tells Sarah Martin when she refuses to sell him her paintings. Sarah is determined to make her name as a landscape painter. That is not going to be achieved by selling her best work to a philistine business consultant like Garrick Raven, who disrupts her life completely. Their paths are forever crossing, even when she moves to a remote manor on top of her beloved Exmoor to escape him...