Liberty Jones fell in love with Hardy Cates when she was fourteen and three-quarters and he was seventeen. But Hardy wasn't going to let love stand in the way of his ambition to escape the poverty of his childhood. He left town -- and Liberty broken-hearted. But Liberty is also a survivor, and determined to make a better life for herself and her baby sister. Moving to the big city, she finds a job and unlikely friend in billionaire tycoon Churchill Travis. Some call her a gold-digger looking for a sugar dadyd, but she knows that her relationship goes deeper than that -- until Hardy rocks the boat by coming back into her life ....