They met at a wild party and neither forgot the experience. Each came away with completely different perceptions of what happened when Judith Reid, an ill at ease seventeen-year-old college student, captured Dev McAllister's attention and he succeeded in breaking through her icy demeanor. The minute things heated up, she ran. He chased and tried everything he could think of to get her to go out with him, only to be rejected. He finally admitted defeat and accepted the truth as he saw it. Judith Reid was a snob, no different from all those other women he'd met through his wealthy college roommate. In fact, she was worse because she had him believing in love at first sight, when in reality, she set him up. He swore to even the score no matter how long it took.
Dev is still bent on his following his plans—seducing Judith and then leaving her wanting as he was left wanting all those years ago. To accomplish his feat he lures Judith, a commercial interior designer, into his grasp with the prospect of remodeling an office-building he knows holds significance for her. Promises, Promises is the story of what happens when Dev's plans backfire. From the moment he sees Judith again, he's captivated, and he's the one who's seduced and left wanting.
Judith and Dev's story is the second in the California series of friends caught in a time warp. They can't move on because they're stuck on their idea of their perfect dreams. But sometimes life works in mysterious ways and they are all forced by circumstances to change.