Kay Collie knows all about broken vows, from her drunken father who certainly didn't love, honor, or cherish his wife and daughter, to the love of her life who eloped with her on graduation night and then signed away their marriage. She spent her adult life hiding from him and his family so they couldn't take away her twins like they took away her marriage. But now when her grown children don't need her anymore, her mother does. Can she return to Montana and face her broken past... and her broken heart? Wade Hampton broke a vow once before when he allowed his parents to convince him to sign annulment papers. He lost his high school soul mate as a result. Now he's determined to remain steadfast to his second wife even though she has shut him out of her heart, and even though they have hardly ever known the better part of "in sickness and in health." Why after nineteen years, while his wife lies dying in the hospital, must Kay return to town?