From castaways to lovers, their island paradise sparks a forbidden passion. Kara is with her fiancé's family to celebrate opening their newest charitable clinic in Kuching when pirates board their chartered yacht, leaving the vessel destroyed, and them castaways. Taj, her fiancé's adopted brother, is the only one with her, and he keeps her alive. As the days pass, and she finds her own strength, she realizes it wasn't loyalty to his brother making him help her. Taj is in love with her, and she has to suspect the reason she's always shied away from him is her own unacknowledged attraction. Alone on a desert island, it gets harder to remember her promise to Gavin when she's falling for Taj. When he finally reveals a devastating secret about her fiancé, it opens her eyes and her heart to new possibilities. Realizing her life isn't her own, and she's playing someone else's part, she's determined to have what she wants and face the consequences when...if...they're ever rescued.