Lincoln Cameron was the man of her teenaged dreams. Magnetic. Handsome. Too many years her senior. A decade later, Val thought she'd left herprivileged Los Angeles life and Lincoln behind forgood. So when the big-shot editor arrived in hersleepy upstate New York town, as out of place asa palm tree in the snow, the single mom couldn'tbelieve it. He spoke of family secrets and of choices thatneeded to be made, and soon. But Val couldn'thelp asking why Linc had really come looking forher. Why wouldn't he leave? And why didn't Val want him to go?