Promises in the dark In the depths of despair, Abby had spent one rapturous night in Ryan Marsdon's arms. Then she'd fled home to a lie. The lie that began during her marriage to Benedict Stakeman and continued as she, his widow, raised another man's child. But not a day-or night-passed that Abby hadn't been tormented memories, heated by remembered passion. And when Ryan stormed back into her life, she knew that confronting the truth had the power to destroy her ...or make her whole.