After her beloved mother’s death, Regan Trent realises with mounting disbelief that she is totally at her stepfather’s mercy – but mercy is a foreign concept to Sherwyn Huntley. To this ruthless man, Regan is simply an obstacle between him and the Trent fortune. Denied a place at her mother’s funeral, cruelly separated from her younger brother, promised in marriage to a sadistic pervert, Regan prefers to take her chance in the wide world – but Huntley will stop at nothing to achieve his cruel ambitions.