Ben is the son of Mac and Helen and grows up in the ever-expanding family of Mac and his other nine wives on Billy Island, and it is there that he finds love. Illicit love. Forbidden love, because the love of his life is his own half sister, Becky. Tortured with guilt he strives to fight the demons within him but as the years pass by and his association with Becky becomes ever more intimate he reaches the soul-wrenching decision to leave Billy Island and go out into the world to search for a love that wouldn't be denied him. Years later he returns to Billy Island to find everything changed and the people he loves scattered to the far corners of the globe... and embarks on a search to find them before deciding on his own future.