Sarah Stone has had a hell of a life and is tired of being alone... again, and she carefully falls for a man who exposes her to a world unknown, but she wonders if her attraction to his strength is a step back or if the feeling of being cherished could be for real.

After a loveless, verbally abusive marriage, Sarah tentatively finds love with a professor but is conflicted by her attraction to his for strong masculinity and its potential risks to her womanhood until touring the real Cuba, she realizes the difference between bully and protector.

Having been diminished through many years of marriage, Sarah, Alaskan divorced mother of three teens, begins to fall for her new tutor, Ian, a man who displays visible masculinity in a way that sexually attract her but also causes fear and trepidation at the same time until she begins to see the difference between bully and protector while traveling through Cuba.