Penelope doesn't trust coincidences. She says good-bye, then hurries to her room, unpacks, and sets out to explore exotic Waikiki. However, over the next few days, she keeps running into Emerson, on the street, at her medical convention, and in the hotel bar. Finally she finds a free ticket to his magic show sitting by her phone, inside her locked hotel room.

Worried that he's a stalker, Penelope decides to avoid Emerson. Desperate for company, she agrees to go out to dinner with her fellow medical vendors, only to learn that they are going to a dinner theater, where Emmerich the Amazing is performing.

Drawn up onto the stage for his final magic act, Penelope has never felt more threatened.

Confronting him after the show, Penelope accuses Emerson, but he professes innocence. While explaining how his tricks work, her guard fails, his charm overwhelms, and they both drink way too much.

Awakening in the same bed, Penelope derides herself for succumbing to a cheap, Hawaiian fling. Then Emerson asks to see her again, and his serious demeanor challenges her reservations.

Penelope begins dating Emerson, although both of their jobs require them to travel often. Yet coincidences keep happening, and Penelope begins to suspect that their meeting wasn't pure chance.

A smart girl, Penelope sets a trap, and catches Emerson having information he couldn't possibly know. She threatens to leave him forever. Yet Emerson confesses the strangest secret Penelope has ever heard: the real purpose of stage magic is to convince everyone else that all magic is false.

Drawn into an unexpected world of real magic, Penelope struggles. How do you trust a lover who can manipulate reality? Yet her greatest surprise has yet to be revealed.