Left with her stepfathers relatives on Cape Cod following his sudden death Melody feels utterly marooned. The wealthy tight-lipped Logans harbour dark secrets & no one but their good-hearted son Cary will breathe a word. Then her mother dies in a car accident & Melody is left feeling more alone than ever. Forced to live in the room & wear the clothes that belonged to Careys dead twin sister Melody sometimes feels she has no identity at all. She manages to escape from the family by taking a summer job with Kenneth Childs the man she believes might be her real father. & from the moment she learns that she & Carey arent real cousins the tender affection she feels for him matures into something much stronger. But although Carey has pledged his love for her she knows she cannot echo his words until she discovers the buried truth about her past.