this be a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergo some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds . i wouldn not call this a spoiler because anyone who have read a steele novel know how they all end . if you do not want to know much about the plot and do not keep reading . gilbert character and ophelia and be a woman of french decent who have lose her husband and son in an accident . gilbert need to stop do film where she be require to have an accent because she and otherwise a good actress and can not realistically pull off any kind of accent . brad johnson and also an excellent actor and be matt and who be recover from a rather nasty divorce . he be gentle and convincing and compel in this role . the two meet on the beach through her daughter and pip and and initially and ophelia accuses matt of be a child molester just because he talk art with the kid . all of them become friend after this episode and then the couple fall in love . the chemistry between the two lead be not great and even though the talent of these two people be not and in my opinion and a question . they do the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that border on stereotypical . two people meet and tragedy and big tragedy and a secret be reveal and another tragedy and and then they get together . i wish there be more to it than that and but there it be in a nutshell . i want mindless entertainment and and i get it with this . in regard to the genre of romantic film and this one fail to be memorable . a secret affair with janine turner be far superior ( not a steele book ) and a be some of steele earlier book turn into film .