Gloria! Gloria!

<p></p><p>It's 1997 and Britain's Goblin Soap heiress Caroline Weetwood an introverted history undergraduate is about to depart for a summer of solitary research on Formentera a peaceful Mediterranean island. Chaos erupts however when her secret schooldays penfriend American heiress Misty Start materialises for the weekend at the Weetwoods' gloomy mansion. Caroline is frosty towards this beautiful dynamic Texan who's just abandoned Harvard; James Caroline's handsome but reclusive brother is infatuated; crusty Lord Weetwood their distant father is inexplicably shocked by Misty's acquaintance with Caroline. And then on Monday when backpacking Misty flies to Paris her tycoon father Sonny Start a cool forty-year-old leading a troubled double life accuses Goblin of shocking industrial espionage. Isolated on magical Formentera Caroline fights a losing battle to resist the island's seduction. But within days of a traumatised Misty suddenly turning up at her remote villa animal rights activists contact Lord Weetwood and Sonny demanding ransoms for their kidnapped daughters. When the mutually suspicious fathers follow lovesick James to Formentera dramatic events swiftly transform all their arid lives. </p><p></p>