Conservative matriarch by day. Writer of erotic romance by night. The secret second life she leads is about to be exposed...can she survive it?
As a pillar of a small Mississippi town and figurehead of a wholesome family magazine, Ann Chandler has to appear as a genteel woman with impeccable morals. She fears that somehow her author-persona will be discovered and bring scandal and ruin. On top of that, now her greedy adult children are trying to push her out of the business she created and take it in an extreme right-wing direction.
Then a stray dog adopts Ann, leading her to walk through a neighborhood she once shunned. The happy discovery of a freespirited Italian family who welcomes her without reservation starts a fire in her heart, and she thrives on their exuberance and zest for life...and falls in love with one of them, a man twelve years her junior.
Her worst fears come to light; scandal erupts. Plunged into a fight for her life, can she find the strength of her own inner heroine and create a happy ending?