Arriving in Fort Ogden, Florida, in 1918, to start a new life, Delia Delaney finds that the tragedy that has shadowed her life for the past eight years is not easily forgotten. Taking a job at the fashionable new Gasparilla Inn at Boca Grande, Florida, she begins her new life, only to find her past haunting her future happiness with a wealthy Boston lawyer--and the man she left behind in Kentucky.