Lindsey Carter's husband dies leaving her poor, but not devastated - their marriage was a loveless one. So when she meets again the only man she ever loved, her world is filled with intense joy. She falls under Glynn's romantic spell once more, but should she really put her own happiness - denied to her when she was a young girl - before that of her two small sons who mean everything to her? For Lindsey, now a widow, this is not an easy question to answer, she has learned something of the problems which married life can bring.

Yet this is not the only dilemma which the beautiful Lindsey has to face. She takes up her pen in order to keep the boys at their expensive public school, and is pleased to receive an offer for what she hopes will be the first of many novels. But Lindsey has caught the eye of her suave, handsome literary agent, Paris Rogers, and has other ideas about her future. Her new admirer inspires in her feelings she cannot interpret. Torn between the magic of the past and the roller-coaster ride of the future, Lindsey must come to terms with the past before she can find the future happiness of which she yearns and she faces an impossible choice....