He's handsome, talented and half her age. But Nina Talbot always gets what she wants. Abby and Nina: they're the best of friends - until a forbidden, passionate affair threatens to devastate their friendship. Abby Hewitt has high ambitions for her 18 year old son Paul, and who better to give Paul advice than glamorous free spirit Nina, a hugely talented designer.
Abby sends Paul to stay with Nina in San Francisco in the hope that Nina will persuade him to take up a university place in the city. But the plan backfires. Instead Paul becomes totally infatuated with Nina, a woman twice his age. And Nina finds Paul the perfect companion - passionate and irresistible. It seems like the perfect secret relationship - until a horrified Abby stumbles upon the affair...