When consultant gynaecologist Eliot Kennedy comes to Westport General the staff find themselves under a new and autocratic rule. Sister Rachel Swift resolves not to allow the bad-tempered, overbearing Mr. Kennedy to upset her patients, her staff or herself. What she didn’t reckon on was the devastating effect he would have on her. She finds herself agreeing to marry him — a marriage of convenience only, for he convinces her that he and his daughter Jessica need her. But what happens in a marriage of convenience when one of the partners falls secretly and wildly in love with the other?