When Marianne Cole Wingate returned to Willow Creek, Tennessee, all she wanted was a chance to recover from the loss of her husband, and a chance to offer her troubled daughter a true home - the kind she could never know in the city. And maybe a chance to lay the ghosts of the past to rest, once and for all... But not everybody was ready to let Marianne put the past behind her... Jack Dylan had told himself for nine years that he was over the young love Marianne had walked away from without a backward glance. And yet the first sight of her told him they had unfinished business - starting with the child he had always suspected was his...