Cassandra's sheltered but happy life is shattered when her father whom she adored shoots himself after losing everything gambling. Bereft of her mother a year ago she has nowhere to go. She agrees to marry the new owner despite his ill repute. On her wedding bed she notices her father's medallion around his neck. Suspicion enters her mind. When he invites his sidekicks to the Manor, Cassandra overhears them talking and learns that her father was shot by one of them. Frightened she decides to runaway. She settles into a happy routine as a nanny, until one day she meets a handsome man and is enamored with him. Has true love found her at last? However, destiny trips her again when she finds out that she is having a child.