特莉娜得到了一份家庭教師的工作，目的在協助四個小搗蛋用功唸書。 但是，她到巴洛克邸的第一個晚上，竟然頭插羽毛，手持斧頭，隨著音樂大跳印地安戰舞，正當她和四個小蘿蔔頭興高采烈時，門口出現了一片冰山似的面孔，頓時凍結了所有的人。 這是一個尷尬的場面，特莉娜萬萬沒想到自己會在這種狼狽的情況下，和巴洛克邸的主人見面。
不過即使冰凍三尺，一旦遇到了和熙的陽光，依舊是會融化的，特莉娜活潑的個性、青春的氣息，使得巴洛克邸恢復了生機，使得孩子們拾回了歡樂，更使得「宙斯」不再拘促在孤寒的書房裡，不再陷溺於悲愴的往事中。

When Sandy first set eyes on the dark, unsmiling Lymond Caldwell, she was reminded of a knight of olden days. And like a chivalrous knight, he seemed to be constantly rescuing her from some predicament or other.

Zoe had not been in Spain long, but already she loved it dearly. She loved Don Ramon Raphaelina too- but what would her chances with him be worth when he learned how she had been deceiving him?

"And you mean to tell me," Murray Denning growled, "that you still intend to marry him -- a man as cowardly, as craven as that." He paused. "Then you deserve everything you're asking for --every single miserable moment!"

Liam's words came slowly. "So they were all lies he told me about you, all lies. And I believed him, everything he said about you. Well," he added, "everything's over now, finished."

露西布朗, 一個在孤兒院長大的女孩子。 因為她的善良、 溫柔以及一顆熾熱的愛心, 使她在渡過了十九年又九個月的艱苦生涯後, 得到了一次改變命運的機會, 一次完全料不到的機會, 從此她的人生歷程進入了一個嶄新的階段。
由於蕾伊小姐的大力推薦, 露西獲得了愛育醫院專業復健員的工作。因此她離開了英國, 滿懷希望、 好奇與憂慮的前往一個遙遠的國度----澳洲。 在她搭乘玫瑰輪前往澳洲的途中, 邂逅了高大、黝黑、英俊的泰菲斯 華爾西, 一個有著嚴重心理障礙的醫生。

Selina was going to marry Roger Peters -- but unless they waited another three years, Selina would forfeit a large legacy and lose her beloved Tall Tops. She was prepared to wait; so was Roger.

That maddening Joel Grant had no right to be so sarcasiic about it all.

妮凱得到一份夢寐以求的工作，她代表一家旅行社，奉派到美麗的渡假島嶼——科孚出差。一切都如此美好，可惜在這座熱情迷人的島上，出現了一位掃興的人。那就是觀光飯店的老板尼可斯。
尼可斯既獨裁又傲慢，在他眼中，妮凱過於活潑獨立，而他企圖把她改造成溫順如綿羊的村婦。您說，天底下有這個道理嗎？