A FATEFUL PROMISE... When they first met, Anthea Bowmont had been searching for a way to save her sister from a desperate plight--and Hawkins Chadwicke was a soldier, headed for a battle he felt sure would mean his demise. On that evening, Hawkins Chadwicke made a grand and generous offer--and Anthea accepted. Neither expected ever again to see the other... But fate would bring them together once more...and entangle them in the web of deception that had been spun in the intervening years. The situation seemed hopeless. There was only one solution--to fall in love...