The requirements set out in her Aunt Sophie's will plunge Laura, a naive, small town book store clerk, into a tropical, exotic setting where she doesn't know the language. She meets her handsome Prince Charming but cnnot talk to him. They devise a useful charade of sign and body language as their mutual attraction grows into love. But Esteban gets an ugent message which tears them apart, snding Laura away with a broken heart, then to Hawaii. Esteban must hack his way through a Columbian jungle before they meet again. Will Esteban survive? Can their love endure? And who sent tht summons which could not be ignored?