Beautiful Francie Harrison is San Francisco's most notorious woman. She lives with the mysterious, enormously wealthy Lai Tsin in a spectacular house at the top of Nob Hill. Her envied style and self-assurance hide a childhood of desperate unhappiness that has left her afraid to love.
Now, with Lai Tsin dead and his vast fortune settled on his blonde, blue-eyed "granddaughter" Lysandra, long buried rumours, scandal and dangers resurface. Suddenly everything is at risk: Francie, the child she loves and the man she dare not love.
Courageous, passionate and alone except for her life-long friend Annie Aysgarth, she has to face and fight for her future.
