Amanda was a well liked and respected professor at a small college in Maine. Her life consisted of her students and her own writing. Her las relationship ending at her choice as it seemed to lack the most important ingredient, love. Her life seemed destined to be routine and normal till Ramon walked into her life. Ramon a student from Spain who was handsome, magnetic and instense. Ramon who was all she looked for and all she avoid. Their love affair taboo as he was younger although a man and a student but Amanda was drawn to him and he to her. Their love affair produced a pregnancy that Amanda knew would ruin Ramon's life so she left in the dead of night planning to raise the child of the only man she would ever love. But, fate was fickle and five years later Ramon came back not only into her life but into her son's.