He was the man she'd been looking for all her life .... Effie Sanders returned to the lake to pack up her grandmother's house and the memories of summers spent tagging along with her sister Bernadette . . . and Parker Morgan. With his blue eyes and lean, tanned muscles, Parker had always been out of Effie's reach, had never noticed her in the shadow of her glamorous sister. Never--until an older, overworked Parker carne to his family's cottage to learn to relax, and found the irrepressible girl he'd known had grown up to become a curvy, alluring woman. And suddenly, he was anything but relaxed .... In this compelling story of a love too long denied, Maris Soule has created a tale that ignites with fiery desire and ripples with tender emotion. When the man of her dreams stepped back into her life, could a woman's never-forgotten yearning spark into newly discovered passion?