Caroline Dawson survived the town gossips who scoffed at her. She survived the slow dying of Roscoe Lancaster, the richest man in the country and the husband thirty years her senior. But she feared she might not survive Rink Lancaster, Roscoe's son.
Years before her marriage, when they were teens, it was Rink who had introduced Caroline to her first tremulous taste of love - and then shattered her heart. Now Rink has returned, every inch the man. He says he wants to settle his father's estate. But what he really wants is Caroline, driven by a passion as undeniable as before and more dangerous than ever . . .