Emma Laroux's a fallen Southern beauty queen whose past is barely whispered about in her small town. But the secrets and lies surrounding the scandal from long ago still haunt her, and something about Matthew Pope holds the answers. If only she could put her finger on it..Matthew Pope wonders what awful karmic thing he'd done to land him in Podunk, Alabama. But when he sees Emma Laroux again after all this time, he knows he's still the only one that holds the key to unlock the truth of her past...Will a shared moment in time ten years ago threaten what might be the best thing that's ever happen to either of them—each other?