"Passion blinded me once, but not again!"When the Colton investigation led to Keyhole, Wyoming, Annie Summers realized the safe life she'd built had just been blown apart by the reappearance of one man???Wyatt Russell! Once, she'd loved him with every fiber of her being.

But when Wyatt had left to pursue his ambitions, she'd been brokenhearted. Now, widowed with twins, the struggling single mom refused to believe in Wyatt's passion-filled promises and let the hotshot D.C. lawyer back into her life. But had the time finally come to act on the dream she'd long suppressed?

CAROLYN ZANE lives with her husband, Matt, their pre-school daughter, Madeline, and their latest addition, baby daughter Olivia, in the rolling countryside near Portland Oregon's Willamette River. Like Chevy Chase's character in the movie Funny Farm, Carolyn finally decided to trade in a decade of city dwelling and producing local television commercials for the quaint country life of a novelist. And, even though they have bitten off decidedly more than they can chew in the remodelling of their hundred-year-plus-old-farmhouse, life is somewhat saner for her than for poor Chevy. The neighbours are friendly, the mail carrier actually stops at the box and the dog, Bob Barker, sticks close to home.