Why had fate played such a trick on her? Helen could hardly refuse to help Matt Seymour when he blundered out of a snowstorm, carrying his sick little daughter to the door of Helen's remote English country cottage.

But the chance meeting rekindled old, bitter memories of their affair, and the realization that she still loved him. How long could she pretend she'd been married and divorced? Couldn't Matt guess the truth about her young son, Tim?