When her wealthy father dies, Sylvie Pace's surprise inheritance is only the clothes she can fit into her (using the word loosely) "car" and a remote Florida ranch she shares with Walt McGurk, cowboy.
(Based on the author's feature film screenplay, which won Honorable Mention, 2001 Writer's Digest Writing Competition, Television/Movie Scripts, out of 19,500 entries.)
These opposites do not attract.
She's Palm Beach, he's Podunk Holler.
She's haute couture, he's old jeans, sweaty tee-shirts, and stinky boots.
She's Italian sports cars, he's American-made pickup trucks.
She's determined to find a way back to her old way of life, he's only trying to make a living.
He calls her The Pouty Princess. She has labeled him The Abominable Cowboy.
He says she's unemployed, she says she's "at leisure."
He's dating the owner of Clarice's Beauty World in Clewiston. She's dating a real-estate tycoon with homes in Miami and Palm Beach.
She's pretty, okay, but that can't make up for all the aggravation she causes poor Walt. She knows her way around high society, sure, but around a real house without servants or a concierge, she doesn't know how to do anything. Some of her mistakes around the house-especially the ones involving electricity-nearly kill him.
The worst thing for Walt about the death of Sylvie's father? Harry Pace isn't actually dead. He's moving in the shadows of his former business world, locating and retrieving assets stolen by his former partners. Walt's job? Keep Sylvie safely squirreled away, far from the nefarious activities of Harry and his unscrupulous associates, until Harry can exact his revenge.
Things get really interesting the day EVERYBODY shows up at the Palm Beach Polo Club.
"I don't love you, Alexandra. We may be bound by fate but you are nothing to me. You never have been-"his husky, cold, detached voice sent shivers of unadulterated fear down my spine; "and you never will be."
Alexandra Grace was strong, uncommitted and unquestionably badass. So, when a man who looks like a dream, smells like heaven and sounds like silk, kidnaps her and then claims to be her soul-mate; it's safe to say that she puts up quite the fight.
Xavier Rivera, on the other hand, is renowned for his lack of mercy, cold heart and harsh words. So, when this big, bad wolf finds his mate and steals the weak human away, he doesn't expect her to be his undoing.
It doesn't take long for either of them to find that love, whether true or not, can really be quite dangerous.