Racing along the rocky coast of Cornwall, on a night fit for neither man nor beast, Verity Collier's coach is attacked by the notorious highwayman plaguing the Cornish countryside. The villain's commanding strength and cloak of dangerous sensuality haunt the young governess even after she arrives safely at the home of her new employer, Lord Jago Ransleigh, Earl of St. Aubyn. During the weeks that follow, she quickly grows fond of his two children. But their mother had died an untimely death, and now Verity is being stalked by something unknown and terrifying, and she fears that her own life, too, is at stake!