Eighteen year-old Jessica's life is turned upside down the day the police knock on her door to deliver the news that her parents have been in a fatal accident. Her late father's gambling and reckless lifestyle leave her finances in turmoil and threaten to leave her homeless...until a chance meeting with a 30-year-old stranger means that her life changes forever.
Finding herself an unofficial ward of a mysterious, serious man, our American heroine and her enigmatic British 'Guardian' get used to living with each other...with all of the tensions, pitfalls and excitement that entails....