Less than two years after losing Micheal, her editor, mentor, companion and lover, to cancer, successful novelist Tara Cooper is struggling to move on, both personally and professionally. Without him, she is unable to continue working on the series that her entire career was built upon on... the magic just isn't there anymore. Convinced that she has to do something drastic, Tara escapes to the Florida panhandle, ostensibly to write a new book, but she secretly hopes that a new start professionally will also equal a new start personally. Unfortunately, the past comes back to haunt her when she goes for a long walk on the beach one evening and suddenly finds herself staring directly into the face of the one man that she had hoped never to see again...and yet, it was also the one face that she had unconsciously looked for in every city, on every street, across every crowded room, every day since she had left Pleasant Grove, Kentucky, many years before. Although she tries her best to avoid him, he won't take no for an answer, and once again, Tara finds herself drawn into a relationship. There's just one problem... Tara has a twenty five year old secret that could ruin everything.