Tessa has kept their daughter out of his world. A work meeting puts her straight back in it.

Fifteen months of motherhood have taught her how to make a handful of quarters stretch and how to get through a day on almost no sleep. At a Philadelphia home-care agency, she has also found work she is good at-and a life that no longer depends on Elias.

Then she walks into a meeting and finds her former boss on the other side of the table. The man she spent one unforgettable night with. The man whose company helped make her disappear.

Elias notices more than she wants him to. A child's medicine syringe. A date that does not add up. The careful distance Tessa keeps even when the old pull between them returns.

Learning he has a daughter is only the beginning. If he reaches for lawyers and money, he could lose the chance to know either of them.

Tessa needs more than an apology. Elias needs to become someone she can trust with the truth-and, perhaps, a second chance.