Linc Cameron was the man of Val's dreams Magnetic. Handsome. A grown man before she was a woman. A decade later, Val thought she'd left her privileged Los Angeles life and Linc behind for good. So when the big-shot editor arrived in her sleepy upstate New York town, as out of place as a palm tree in the snow, the single mum couldn't believe it. He spoke of family secrets and of choices that needed to be made, and soon. But Val was asking why Linc had really come looking for her. Why was he still here? And why didn't Val want him to go?