There are secrets no amount of charm can hide... Noah Stewart was the first man Kit Roarke trusted when she came to tiny Pratte, Vermont, to investigate her best friend's murder - a murder that mysteriously mirrored the tiny town's only other one thirty years ago. But in Noah's calm hazel eyes Kit discovered his other, secret, side - and the key to his shaded past. The town doctor was a gentle lover who melted her defenses - but he was also a shrouded stranger who lived with a terrifying truth...