Elizabeth Bennett had, at last, found paradise. Her loveless marriage had come to an end with the death of her cruel husband - and now she was left blissfully alone to raise her young daughter on their lush Hawaiian estate. But then everything changed. A dark, handsome stranger appeared on her doorstep. His name was Spence Laamea. He was her husband's illegitimate son, and - according to her spiteful husband's will - he would run the estate until Elizabeth's daughter came of age. Elizabeth was enraged. Here was a man she knew nothing about. A man who held sway over her and her fate. A man who made her heart beat with a passion she had never felt before... But, like the shifting tides of Hawaii nei, they found themselves changing, drawn together by a love and desire even stronger than the pull of the island moon...