Dallas Sykes is a 32-year-old playboy. The adopted son of a department store magnate, he caught the attention of the media as a child and has continued to appear as the face of the tabloids ever since. That's the Dallas that the world knows. But the real Dallas Skyes is a man with dark secrets and a painful past; whose heart and soul belong to a woman he cannot have. A woman who once upon a time ran to him for comfort and now goes out of her way to avoid him.