Leonette is a beautiful, smart young woman who travels to London for her inheritance after her father dies. When she arrives, mysterious events occur, leading her to believe her father was murdered. Thinking that a soured love affair is the basis for suspicion, she hires a handsome attorney, Martin, to investigate. By working so closely with Martin, Leonette begins falling in love with him. She finds herself whirled into a romantic adventure beyond her control, where passion is a never-ending obsession.

Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs away from camp and asks to spend the summer with her. Together they decide that she will enter the Ironman Triathlon competition in Hawaii, although she has not done any running since high school. The experience brings them together.

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.