SYDNEY COOKE, a California magazine writer assigned to describe a tour of Italy, meets TAYLOR MITCHELL, an artist/computer consultant, on the flight to Rome. They click, but sometimes he's mysterious. Just her luck if an eligible man has skeletons in his closet. Nine days late, the divorced mother who is also a passenger on the tour, accuses Taylor of molesting her young daughter. Innocent but angry, Taylor disappears. Can Sydney find him, and in her unique, resourceful fashion, heal old wounds and bring about a happy-ever-after?