On the one hand, Matt feels the pressure from his cousins to sell the land so that it can be developed and the money can be distributed equally among his cousins. As an added stress, Matthew's cousins are currently trying to convince him to accept an offer for the land left to them by their ancestors, of which Matthew is in control. Matthew and the girls spend the weekend visiting his wife's family and letting them know that they should visit the hospital to say goodbye to her. This is a slap in the face to Matthew but he decides to press on and do what needs to be done despite the development.

Alexandria naturally becomes upset and then reveals to her father that she had caught her mother having an affair. Disappointed but determined, he flies the three of them back home and then tells Alexandria that her mother is actually going to be taken off of life support and he needs her help this weekend in controlling Scottie and letting the rest of their family and friends know. A school adviser leads him on a search through the school and they find Alexandria out past curfew drinking with a friend. He and Scottie arrive at his daughter Alexandria's boarding school late at night only to find that she is not in her dorm.

He decides that it is necessary to get his 17 year old daughter from the mainland and bring her home to help him deal with Scottie and the rest of his family as he breaks the news of his wife's condition. Now, Matthew finds that not only does he have no idea how to talk to Scottie but she is attention hungry and a bully at school. Before his wife's accident, Matthew was not a very prominent figure in Scottie's life he was not very active in being a disciplinary parent as he was quite involved with his career. His next task is to gently break the news to his 10 year old daughter Scottie. One day Matt gets the news that his wife is not going to come out of the coma and is advised to take her off life support. Matthew spends most of his time at the hospital but still finds it difficult and taxing as he and his wife had become strangers due to Matt's extreme focus on his job. His beautiful and daredevil wife, Liz, is on life support after a boating accident. While Matthew owns a nice house and a nice car and seems to have good friends and a thriving professional career, his personal life is in shambles. Due to his ancestral prominence, his family owns a large and beautiful swath of land. Half-Polynesian and half-white, Matthew and his family are descended from a Hawaiian princess.

Though he has made his own money as a prominent attorney, a great deal of his wealth he inherited from his ancestors. Matthew King is a wealthy attorney in Hawaii. A man tries to discipline his somewhat estranged and rebellious daughters while dealing with the impending death of his coma stricken wife.

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