Billionaire business genius Buck Cheyne, along with his brilliant and beautiful girlfriend, Elizabeth Harrington, escape to Big Bend National Park for an extended weekend amidst a cloud of Federal and IRS investigations threatening the Cheyne family energy and ranch legacy. But they’re not as remote as believed when a chance meeting with a familiar acquaintance happens. Like rafting the Rio Grande River, follow the twists and turns as they come up against the powerful Texas Senator, Lucian Garnet, and fall more deeply in love around every bend.

All Buck Cheyne wanted to do was escape to Hawaii for some well-deserved R&R with the woman he’d met in Santa Fe just a few months prior. He and Elizabeth Harrington had already traveled a decent distance down the relationship highway. But it was time to see how being together for more than just a day or two at a time might impact their feelings for one another. There seemed no escaping the fact that Buck's billionaire status along with having a thriving global business made spending quantity time with that one special person almost impossible. When his college friend, Lana Jacobs, finds herself in a dire predicament, his best plans for a vacation with Liz in paradise are even further derailed.

Buck Cheyne, self-made billionaire entrepreneur, learns that one of his companies is being investigated by the Feds. Under government contract and working out of the top secret Los Alamos facility, others want in on their discovery. It turns out the previously unknown 119th chemical element has powerful curative properties. Some deadly ones, also.

Plagued by horrible nightmares and personally implicated, he stands to lose his wealth and freedom. Because life is spiraling out of control, he retreats to Santa Fe in an attempt to regain perspective. There, he is mysteriously transferred to some other place not of this world and given a message. Buck knows this experience is more than a mental aberration. He becomes convinced Elizabeth Harrington, the manager of the hotel he’s staying in, holds a key to deciphering what it means. She can help find out who is behind destroying him and his company before it’s too late.

Returning home from World War II reopens Roibeard Cheyne’s wound caused by the death, a year and a half before, of the woman he loved who promised to wait for him. He suspects it was no accident and enlists her twin sister to help him learn the truth about what…or perhaps who…killed her. What they discover is far different than anything either expected.