After New York City party planner Rayne Walker learns that
the only father she has ever known is seriously ill, she
immediately heads to American Beach, Florida, where her
father is recuperating in his vacation home. Having been
warned by her mother that her biological father — Benjamin
Jefferson — also lives on American Beach, Rayne carefully
avoids him, until, as fate would have it, she meets the
scion of the Jefferson real-estate fortune and finds
herself falling for him.
For Wade Jefferson it was love at first sight when he laid
eyes on Rayne Walker. A powerful land developer, Wade and
his father have been buying property in the popular resort
community for years to preserve the island's African-
American heritage. But when Rayne rebuffs his overtures,
Wade suspects that it's more than just her father's land
that's getting in the way of their mutual attraction....