Raymond LaCasse has just completed his studies in Paris and is on his way home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Little does he know that sharing a taxi with a beautiful stranger will change his life in ways he can't even imagine. Long after she's collected her belongings and left the taxi they'd shared to the airport, he can't get her out of his mind. He continues to wonder, who was that gorgeous woman? He wishes he could have spent a longer time in her company. He gets his wish, but not in the way he's imagined. Gabrielle Descotte, a model by profession, loves her brother dearly and would do anything for him, even agreeing to assist him in a daring, but illegal, feat. When she meets his intended target, Raymond LaCasse, she swiftly has a change of heart. She now has to choose, her brother or the man who occupies her thoughts every waking moment to the exclusion of all else. Divided by loyalties and bound by a desire that drives them into each other's arms, Raymond and Gabrielle find themselves in a convoluted web of deceit and danger that almost destroys their new-found love and tears them apart....