THERE IS A TIME TO LET GO OF LOVE... AND A TIME TO FIND IT AGAIN.Every woman faces a moment when she discovers nothing stays the sameforever... not even love. For beautiful Sharon Thompson, giving herselfcompletely to a man for the first time, life was springtime' and promises...until tragedy struck. In one terrible, brutal instant, her handsome younglover was dead, and the Maitlands, his wealthy, aristocratic family,wouldn't believe that the child she carried was his. Now all Sharon had washer determination to make it on her own. In Santa Fe's elite artist colonyand in glitzy oil-rich Dallas, she dared to become a woman ... and foundeverything but her heart. Then a life-and-death crisis drove her to a manshe once feared and hated--powerful Reid Maitland. And soon Sharon wouldfind herself in a new season that could bring passion and heartbreak--orpassion and her most precious dreams.