With Alan Ladd for a grandfather and Cheryl Ladd as her mother, Jordan Ladd certainly has acting in the blood. But it would take someone of considerably more ability to make this potboiler work. It's a far-fetched tale with Ladd as a bookish romantic in an Iowa backwater who transforms into a scheming vixen after she falls for married Chicago businessman Vincent Spano. It's left to Holland Taylor's lawyer to try and pick up the pieces at the subsequent murder trial.

Janet Flanders is a small-town, unsophisticated young woman who is seduced by the fantasy of romantic love; she believes that someday her prince will come to sweep her away. Then she meets handsome Brett Becker; she believes she's found the man of her dreams -- little suspecting he is engaged to marry a wealthy socialite. Deep into her illusion that Brett loves her, she moves to Chicago to be closer to him, deluge him with calls and love notes, tells her family about her boyfriend Brett, and buys an engagement ring. Her obsession with him leads her from intrigue and eventually to murder.