Climbing the corporate ladder had been Emily Lattrell's way to forget her troubled childhood. Her alcoholic mother's rejection of her had made Emily determined to protect her heart. But after meeting Philip Manning, she did the unthinkable -- she quit her job to care for his brother's children while their mother lay in a coma.

Pouring herself into the children's lives energized Emily in a way that corporate America couldn't. And spending time with Philip made her long to take the greatest chance of all -- risking her heart by revealing secrets she'd fought to conceal.