Although very wealthy, Andrew Fitzpatrick personally runs his family's hotel on the sleepy, out of fashion Antilles island of Cordecil where he grew up. He takes a mutual fancy to atypical guest Maddie Turner, a US art historian and exhibition curator, who is sent to earn the museum a huge donation from tycoon benefactor by following the recent, rare lead from a historical journal to the island's legendary magical lovers stone. Fitz keeps saving her impetuous butt until they actually crack the riddle, then have to handle surprisingly conflicting loyalties.