With his grandmother's death, Austin Thorndyke believes he can easily take over Thorndyke Nurseries. Instead, her will forces him to cooperate with his incompetent cousin, Willis, in reviving the business, and to help his uncle's step-daughter, Connie Hazelton, to renovate Thorndyke House into a bed and breakfast. Fighting both Connie's determination to make him accept family responsibilities he rejected years before, and his growing attraction to her, he finds he must work with her to gain control of Thorndyke Nurseries. When he discovers substantial sabotage and extensive embezzlement in the business, he ceases to trust anyone. Someone wants the Thorndykes destroyed. Can he find the culprit behind the escalating violence and murder in time to save his family and its legacy?