Charlie Barnett, a billionaire philanthropist, is happily alone in his mundane life of total predictability until he meets a mother and daughter who disrupt his rut and awaken within him the iron clad desire to reach for love and family hood. Kathy Matthews gently invades his heart with all the innocent feminine wiles he has long since stopped observing and Meredith and her daughter Kylie awaken strong paternal feelings he thought were dead. He quickly learns that Kathy lives buried under a colossal amount of subterfuge, injustice, intrigue and frustration he must invade and conquer before she can be his.