Natasha Cunningham has extremely controlling parents who insist that she marry a member of their church, but this attractive, capable eighteen-year-old, falls in love with Matt, "one in a million." Her parents firmly shut the romance down because of Matt's religious shortcomings. After a disastrous marriage and subsequent divorce to Andrew, a violent wife beater, she eventually breaks away from the abusive marriage and her parents "apron strings" and moves away to start her own secretarial business, where she meets Neil, a complete charmer. Neil seems like the ultimate husband but he has a stormy affair with a sexy spiky-haired Russian girl. Natasha's life then turns into a nightmare. Will there be a happy ending for her?