Fresh out of high school, Carrie Washburn was left alone in the world when her only living relative mysteriously turned his back on her. Since that terrible encounter with her Uncle Price Carmichael, she has struggled to pay her way through college by working as a guide for Atlanta-based Galaxy Tours.

Intent on settling his late employer's estate, handsome Boston attorney Ben Ross tracks Price Carmichael's poor-as-a-church-mouse niece to a Jamaican resort where she is leading a group of tourists. Instantly enchanted by Carrie Washburn, Ben is stunned when she flatly refuses to accept the huge Carmichael fortune and the name and position that go with it.

As Carrie and Ben wage a war of wills on the hills and beaches of romantic Jamaica, they take a journey of the heart that takes them to places beyond their imagination, where they learn truths that will change their lives forever.