After being stripped of her title upon learning her parents were never married, Camille Westcott steps aside as her newly discovered half-sister, Anna, asserts her role as the rightful heir to their father's fortune. Camille takes a teaching job at an orphanage where Anna grew up. There she meets an artist and part-time teacher named Joel, who finds her as incorrigible as she finds him. But under the hostility and frustration, a flame begins to burn, and soon the two cannot deny the passion they feel for one another.
