Rachel had loved Jake Reardon with all the fervor and passion first love brings, but after a bitter argument, she ran away from him and all she knew.
Returning home, she finds everything has changed. . . .
After years of self-imposed exile, Rachel MacCall returns to her hometown to discover that the home she always thought she could come back to has changed. Her grandmother has died and left her a sizable inheritance. For a recently widowed, near-destitute woman with an injured teenage son, this would seem a godsend.
She never expected to see him again. . . .
It would be, except Jake Reardon is the administrator of Rachel's estate. . .and he has no intention of letting her escape him again.