<p>Beautiful eighteen-year-old Norina is dismayed when her widowed father Lord Sedgewyn quickly remarries to society beauty Violet ? and even more so when she discovers her new stepmother's wicked plot to poison her and inherit a fortune held in trust for Norina.<br>In fear for her life, she flees in disguise, securing a position as secretary to a temporarily blinded French Nobleman who whisks her away to Paris and then to his opulent South ...