Recently widowed the mother of a teenaged daughter, Kate Rose has finally come to her own as head of her own talent agency. She has kept her past carefully hidden: the callous lover who abandoned herthe unfulfilling marriage to a powerful older man who gave her child his namethe nights she wept over the betrayal that still haunts her.
Now, after seventeen years, Jake Talbot has come back-just as sensual and irresistible as the day he broke her heart. Kate thought she was strong enough to handle anything. But suddenly she is a woman on the edge, fighting the passion Jake reawakens even as he urges her to give their relationship another chance. Just as she is beginning to trust again, to believe in the future jake offers, Kate is forced to face the ultimate test of a man and a womans love: a shattering truth that could destroy her chances for happiness forever-if she lets it



