Kelly McWinter and Gillian are keeping a promise, and taking their first vacation as a couple at Bubba's Paradise Lodge. Of course, the fact that Cam Belcher, the owner of the Hideaway and feisty redhead Stella Davis, have picked this particular Paradise to tie the knot is the icing on the wedding cake. Everything is perfect ? the setting is gorgeous, the weather is heavenly and love is definitely in the air. At least that's the way it seemed when Kelly and Gillian returned from the wedding of their best friends and prepared to settle in for the night in one of Bubba's romantic little cabins.

Flash forward to the middle of the night. Bubba Tate banging the hell out of the cabin door was enough to put a damper on any romantic interlude, and when the reason for Bubba's late night intrusion turns out to be the murder of one of Gillian's stable boys back at her riding stable in Fort Worth, the vacation is over and Paradise is in the rear view mirror of the 747 taking Kelly and Gillian back home to Texas.