Childhood sweethearts, and first loves, they should have been together forever until Hal left for university. Without explanation, Abigail ended the relationship and cut all ties.

Left utterly devastated and unable to find out why Hal retreated to save his broken heart. He pushed away his old friends and kept his distance from his family. Even after he married the wealthy but cold Julienne, a flame burned in his heart for Abigail.

Abigail, however, had a secret and it had defined her life for fifteen years. She was glad Hal had stayed away but all that was about to change. Now, with his marriage in tatters and with a new determination to find out the truth, Hal was on his way home to Dover, where the past had been buried, and nothing would be the same again.