Duke Fontaine is a powerful man. Unfortunately, powerful men can have powerful enemies. Duke's daughter, Casey, is about to find out what it's like to have enemies of her own.

All Casey Fontaine has ever wanted is to be left alone to grow sugarcane. After all, the cane's the only thing that's never let her down--which can't be said of the fiancé who left her just before their wedding day. Now that her parents are on an extended second honeymoon, she has her chance to run the plantation exactly the way she wants.

It's not long before trouble arrives. First in the form of a suspicious fire that threatens her family's home. Then in the person of Nick Devlin, her brother's friend and a man more than capable of distracting her from the job she has to do...