Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl – her father raised her alone after her mother died when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and her emotion is only intensified by the confusion she feels when he reveals the shocking truth about her mother.

Cordelia can't suppress her curiosity about the woman who gave birth to her, and when she discovers the answers to her questions lie in Sydney, Australia, she travels there to get them.

When hotel magnate Aiden Madison gets railroaded into taking Cordelia to Sydney on his company jet, he unknowingly puts her life at risk. He's recently angered a powerful congressman and Congressman Chambers is not a man to let such an offense slide.

In Australia sparks are flying between Cordelia and Aiden, but when multiple attempts on Aiden's life are made while Cordelia is with him. Aiden realises he must put a stop to the madness before he loses the person he values most.