The time had come to end the lie . . .

Sustained by her faith, Monica Fletcher finally had the courage to tell the only man she had ever loved the secret that had burned in her heart for eleven years.

The time had come to heal old wounds . . .

When celebrity Daniel Rourke revisited Boise, Idaho, the local beauty who had been his college girlfriend turned his world upside down with the revelation that he was a father!

The time was now to start over . . . if they could

Could his hometown sweetheart and newfound daughter find a place in the fast-paced Chicago milieu that was now Daniel's world? Only time would tell if it was possible for him to reclaim the life they should have had -- and the family he had belatedly come to cherish.