Actress Caroline Fawley has given up her acting career to become the mistress of tycoon Marius Fleetwood. Marius has set up Caroline and her two teenaged children in a country manor called Alderley. If Marius should die, the house and money to support it are left to Caroline in his will. Or so she believes, until the day her world falls apart and virtually everything she believe about Marius is proved false.
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