When the physiotherapist Sally Yorke left the Beckmoor Orthopaedic Home in order to look after a patient at Morocco’s fabulous Hotel Mirador, she found herself with more on her hands than she had expected. Not only did she find her patient, Mike Ritchie, in a defeatist mood, but she found that Mike’s cousin, the owner of the Mirador, the immensely successful Dane Ryland, was an autocratic man with an inclination to run other people’s lives—including Sally’s. Sally herself was not the sort of girl to let anybody run her life, and yet Dane was accustomed always to getting his own way. Who would win?