Lillian Booth's happy and sheltered life is shattered forever when her father loses the family home, a thriving plantation called The Meadows, in a card game. For Lillian is faced with a terrifying prospect: arrogant, handsome playboy Bill Cutler agrees to return the plantation - only if Lillian will marry him. Too frightened to defy her father, Lillian is forced to leave her childhood home behind, and make a bold new beginning as the mistress of a hotel called Cutler's Cove ... The Cutler family saga - Dawn, Secrets of the morning, Twilight's child, Midnight Whispers, Darkest Hour,