When Judi and a man from the cruise ship where she was a d.j are washed up on a desert island after a shipwreck, she comes to rely on his cool common-sense for their survival. Aware of how sexy he is she cannot undersand why he keeps her at a distance. Only when it looks doubtful if they will ever be rescued does he seem to relent...but then they are spotted by a helicopter and everything changes. She goes back to England and the life she ran away from and he returns to New York. The press coverage is relentless and shows that she has been deceived by him all along. He is not what he seems. And now she has a secret of her own she vows never to reveal. Forced to meet him in New York, the scorching passion they felt on love island flares again...