When Sherrill stumbles on her fiance and his secretary, Arla, in a passionate discussion minutes before her wedding ceremony, she is shocked--but her choice is clear. Arla will marry Carter in that day's ceremony, not her. Sherrill survives the ceremony with the help of a stranger who remains constantly and comfortingly by her side. But after the disastrous wedding passes, Sherrill's emerald and diamond necklace go missing, and Sherrill finds herself suspecting the very man who had come to mean so much.