Wealthy, womanless and temporarily at loose ends, Formula One race-car driver Rick Hawkins finds himself in Texas visiting his newly married father. While he's there, he becomes involved with his stepmother's family-especially her twenty-eight-year-old cousin Audra Jarrett. She's beautiful, talented, loyal and kind-qualities that attract Rick. In fact, she attracts him as no woman ever has.

While Audra is drawn to Rick, she's afraid of starting a relationship with him. She's suffered tragic losses in her life. So how could she allow herself to love a man with such a dangerous job? If anything ever happened to him, she's not sure she'd be able to pick up the pieces. Then again, Rick's nickname is Lucky...