Rising entrepreneur Paul Carter proves irresistible seductive to career woman Grace Tanner, who agrees after hot hotel nights to work for him on top of their romance. Despite an episode of drunk semi-rape, she agrees to move in to his Oregon luxury wood cabin and reluctantly accepts his public surprise-proposal. However he grows ever more domineering, controlling, jealous and when he feels control slipping even violent. She flees and they turns on each-other totally