Culture shock. That's what Nikki experiences when her father is transferred from Laguna Beach to Seattle. Gazing up in the gray drizzle at the gargoyles on the apartment building that is her new home, she tells herself that life as she knows it is over, that boredom is all she can hope to look forward to.

But that was before she saw the people in the mirror and before she met the gorgeous young man next door....

Sage Elgin has lived with her wealthy, powerful, beautiful, and selfish Aunt Victoria since she was twelve, when her anthropologist parents--her mother, a Zuni Indian, and her father, Aunt Victoria's brother--were killed in an airplane crash on their way to a dig-site.

Now, while still in deep mourning three weeks after her Aunt Victoria had died in a horseback riding fall, Victoria's attorney tells Sage that Victoria had squandered away her fortune, and Sage is left with virtually nothing to live on.

Trying to escape her grief and worry for at least couple hours...