Charmaine Reeves has been hurt by a man who used her, but still retain her romantic ideas about love. Adam Blake, however, has turned his own emotional hurt into cold cynical attitude.
Enthralled with each other, Charmaine and Adam want a permanent relationship but can't agree on the ground rules. Charmaine seeks a romantic marriage but Adam demands a marriage of convenience. Neither will bend emotionally.
When they become trapped alone in an isolated island, open conflicts erupts as they seek to convert each other to their own viewpoint. Adam tries to tempt her into loveless marriage with his sexual mastery, but Charmaine resists this ploy and entice him with romance.
In this war of sexual desire versus emotional need, who ties the red string determines who will have to give in before they leave island because magic between them is impossible to withstand.
