Lark Braylin is summoned to the East Coast to take her rightful place with the family business and collect the inheritance she knew nothing about. When she confronts Greg Braylin, the adopted cousin running the company, memories of their sensual past overwhelm her. Greg's lifestyle is over. He has to share his home with a stranger holding a larger stake in the business and his future at her whim. He assumed Lark would be spiteful at minimum but accepts she is still the erotic ideal he now measures all females against. The battle over their respective futures may destroy everything or open a whole new world for both of them.