The bad boy is back in town—but can she stop him from getting away again? The prodigal son has come home. Billy Culver was born on the wrong side of the tracks and left town a hell-raising, dirt-poor servant's son, but now he's back with a vengeance. An obscenely successful entrepreneur, he could buy and sell Oakmount Village and everyone in it. But what he really wants is to pay back the town—and the girl—who did him wrong, and to reclaim what's rightfully his.  Arlene Lambert could never forget the boy who was her cherished childhood friend and all-too-fleeting lover. And she's still got it bad for Billy, who has become an irresistible and unpredictable man. But reuniting with him means revealing the secret she's kept all these years, a revelation that could destroy any chance of a future together. And Billy's harboring a secret of his own . . .