When aspiring writer Byron Hanolan meets Alexandra Bass, one of the countries top models on the dance floor of world-famous Studio 54, it is love at first sight. But Alexandra's domineering mother Charlotte is determined she marry the heir to one of New York's wealthiest banking families. When a ruthless web of deception to break them up backfires, Alexandra flees for a brand new life and stardom in Hollywood. Byron sets out to write The Great American novel but instead becomes head writer of Harbor Hills, a TV soap opera on the brink of cancellation with a cast of characters who prove fact is stranger than fiction. Years later, when fate reunites the former lovers on the set of Harbor Hills, reality and make believe become blurred when Byron's obsession to win back the great love of his life draws the cast of TV's hottest show into a dangerous game of revenge and murder.