How do you teach a heart to love again? Maggie Pearson. Shattered by theloss of her husband, she struggled each day to put her grief behind her. Tobe there for her teenaged daughter. And to face life again. When shereturned to her Wisconsin hometown, she never expected to feel a spark oflonging-for her old high school sweetheart ... Eric Severson. His marriageto a driven career woman had left him childless and unhappy-he knew therehad to be more to life than always wanting what you couldn't have. SeeingMaggie again filled him with hope. Maybe the answer to his dreams had justcome to town.... Their memory of young love blossomed into an affair thatwould shake both their lives-and would challenge everything; they believedabout loving each other. Could they follow a dream from the past? Or hadthey missed the chance of a lifetime?