Misty Mason was a beautiful American girl with a past. Her parents had died because of the political machinations of a young and ambitious American senator, Tiny Monahan. Misty had followed his career with a vengeance, determined to build a case against the man who destroyed her beloved family.
But that was before she met Sir William Courtney, the eligible, sophisticated English baronet who unexpectedly fell in love with her, a love which she reciprocated. Their early married life in Washington was idyllic until the day the letter arrived from Lady Courtney, his mother, asking William to return to the English ancestral home and traditional way of life. From that time things began to go very wrong for them and gradually Misty began to long for her native America and her mind returned to the vendetta she had always sworn she would wage.