Men will want you like they want a glass of rumโฆOne man will love you. But you wonโt love him. You will destroy his life. The one you love will break your heart in two.
So says the soothsayer, when predicting young Celiaโs future. Raised in the tropics of Tobago by an aunt she loves and an uncle she fears, Celia has never felt that she belonged. When her uncleโa man the neighbors call Allah because he thinks himself mightier than Godโdoes something unforgivable, Celia escapes to the bustling capital city.
There she quickly embraces her burgeoning independence, but her search for a place to call home is soon complicated by an affectionate friendship with William, a thoughtful gardener, and a strong sexual tension with her employer. All too quickly, Celia finds herself fulfilling the soothsayerโs predictions and living a life of tangled desperationโtrapped between the man who offers her passion and the one who offers his heart.