Lincoln Cameron was the man of her teenaged dreams. Magnetic. Handsome. Too many years her senior.

A decade later, Val thought she'd left her privileged Los Angeles life and Lincoln behind for good. So when the big-shot editor arrived in her sleepy upstate New York town, as out of place as a palm tree in the snow, the single mom couldn't believe it.

He spoke of family secrets and of choices that needed to be made, and soon. But Val couldn't help asking why Linc had really come looking for her. Why wouldn't he leave?

And why didn't Val want him to go?