After five years, Vanity Rodriquez, new restaurateur, was finally moving on with her life. The unexpected inheritance of St. Christopher's Italian Restaurant caused a dramatic change in her career but it made her one of the top up and coming restaurateurs in the country. Vanity relocated to California to put her divorce from Winston and the death of her soul mate, Dexter McKnight behind her. At her first grand opening of St. Christopher's in Los Angeles, she met Grant Parker, a coastal engineer from Rancho Cordova. Originally from Jamaica, he had a dark rough exterior but when put in a tailored suit, he was a clean cut Versace top model - definitely her style. Their attraction was almost instant and after a few months they were unquestionably an item. Life was good and normalcy was starting to be the norm for Vanity. The dreams she had at night of sexual encounters with Dexter were starting to subside and intimacy with her new boyfriend felt real. A year into the relationship with Grant, at the San Francisco opening, all of what she had come to know as life back to normal was over. Her dreams were no longer successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occurred involuntarily in her mind during sleep...they were real.