Struggling with a tumultuous past relationship and his responsibilities to his family business, Lord Sallanger is a hardworking, self-made man. Aubrey Harrison, an independent farm girl from Wyoming that drops into the world of Southampton high society for one season and upon meeting her in the middle of a mud puddle, John can not take his eyes off of the American beauty. He is enamored and intrigued by her, for she is unique in looks, attitude, and spirit. Not the normal snobbish women he has been surrounded with for his lifetime, - and she is completely off limits making her all the more desirable. A friendship that is created out of guilt draws them into a romance that even an ocean between them can’t destroy. Jealousy, deceitfulness, and unknown family secrets meant to destroy them only bring them closer together, but not without changing them both in the process. Now they must make a choice to either accept fate or create their own.