The limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford.

[1] This romantic melodrama starred Tatum O'Neal as Blythe Hunter, a beautiful scorned woman, whose boyfriend Theodore Crawford (Clive Robertson) left her twenty-five years ago to marry someone else.

As revenge, she decides to destroy him by grooming her two sons to marry his two daughters and take over The Tides, a racetrack in Del Mar, California.

Jessie Ward and Kate French played Emma and Brooke respectively, the Crawford daughters.

Blythe approaches Aaron to pose as "Daniel Karol" and help her undermine Theodore and take control of the Tides.

Over the show's first month, Emma gets engaged to the Tides lawyer Edward (who is cheating on her with secretary Jennifer), Brooke quickly falls for Daniel, and Blythe reveals herself to Theo, and tries to rekindle the flame between them, steaming Theo's girlfriend, Hope Lorca, who raised Brooke and Emma after their mother's death, and was the family housekeeper.

Soon, Emma makes a startling discovery- that Theo is not Brooke and herself's real father, but her late mother, Anna had a lover named Gavin.

This serial was derived from a 1998 Venezuelan series, Aunque me Cueste la Vida (Though It Might Cost Me My Life).

[2] The show was originally intended to run in syndication as Art of Betrayal under the Desire umbrella title.

Sean Young and Gordon Thomson were originally signed for the lead roles played by Tatum O'Neal and Clive Robertson.

Actress Jessie Ward played Penelope Sayers on another MyNetworkTV telenovela, Desire.