When Lexa was offered a job in Thailand as nanny to the little motherless six-year-old Alacho Mansell she very soon lost her heart to her delightful little charge. But she also swiftly came to love the child's father, Paul Mansell - and there would be no future in that relationship. For Paul was a man whose heart was buried in the past; whose love still belonged, as it always would, with the memory of his beautiful dead wife Sally. His obsession about his wife's death had prevented him loving his own child - so what hope had Lexa that he would ever return her feeling for him? Nothing but heartbreak lay ahead - but how could she contemplate leaving that little girl?