Mia Barton was astonished to discover at the age of twenty that her parents, now dead, had not been her real father and mother at all, but had adopted her as a baby. Being now alone in the world, Mia decided to follow the only clue she had to her real mother's whereabouts, which led her to the romantically named Isle d'Amour in the Seychelles Islands. But soon her quest began to be obscured by an even more urgent problem—that of Gideon Eastwood. It did not take Mia long to fall in love with him—and not long either to realise that he did not return her feelings! But did he love his glamorous, possessive assistant Gwyneth Vaughan, or the beautiful, mysterious Contessa Annys de Severini?