Without lies... A woman with no guile, with adoration in her heart for the only man she believed she would ever love. Tara once loved with purity and passion. Shared all that she was. Then she learned the agony of irrevocable loss-along with the unexpected permanence of death. Without trust... Case Ferguson has known only animosity as well as treachery from women. Scarred, embittered, Case becomes a solitary aloof man-swearing never to allow himself to have faith in a woman again. Passion for all time... When Tara and Case meet there is a haunting quality of misjudgment between them. Desperate to get past his disparaging ways, she understands his vulnerability. Tara is willing to gamble what proud reticent Case cannot. With tenderness and understanding she brings trust along with love to an anguished soul who believes in neither-though she fears in her heart that by loving Case she will lose him. Just as she lost her first love.