Bella Sumner is used to being treated as if she were invisible by Harrison Winthrop, the unfriendly son of the Winthrop-Reid president, and while she doesn't understand why, she can deal. Until the day she is assigned to work with Harrison on a long term project and she wonders how the two of them are supposed to get anything accomplished if the man won't even speak to her.

Harrison Winthrop has been waiting for over two years for Bella Sumner, the woman he has been dreaming about since the moment they met in an elevator, but she has only ever been interested in his brother, Brent. If he and Bella win the contest, thinly disguised as a "project", Harrison will not only take over as company president when his father retires, but will also get his chance with Bella.