When lingerie designer Allie McDonald loses her job, she accepts a wealthy former colleague's invitation to escape the heat of New York City at his family's summer house. At the lakeside mansion, however, the temperature rises to scorching levels when Allie finds her host's gorgeous brother Jonas Meyer in her bed! Burned by women who are only after his money, Jonas is drawn to Allie's self-reliance, and what begins as a flirtation develops into an intense obsession. But when he discovers the truth about her dirt-poor upbringing can Allie convince Jonas she wants him - not his family's fortune?.