Phelix was forced to get married at the age of 18 because of her tyrant father. She met her husband-to-be, Nathan Mallory, for the first time at the registrar. He was 10 years older than her, tall and sophisticated, and she soon fell in love. But what awaited them after getting married was a cruel betrayal by her father, and she still remembers the stormy night when her father raped her mother! The man's cruel acts continue to haunt her, threatening to destroy her own marriage...