

But she's also ready to even the score-especially when she learns that the elder Rouillard may have been murdered that fateful summer night. Now Faith is back, financially independent and still nursing a passion for Gray that his actions couldn't possibly justify.

The entire town assumed the longtime lovers had eloped, and Guy's handsome young son, Gray, enraged, had the remaining Devlins driven out of town, leaving 14-year-old Faith to care for her fatally ill baby brother. Twelve years ago, Renee Devlin and Guy Rouillard disappeared simultaneously one summer night. Loving Rouillard men seems to run in the Devlin family. Flawed and predictable, Howard's latest offering after Dream Man is the rather cliched contemporary story of a dirt-poor Southern girl in love with the handsome son of a Louisiana town's wealthiest family.
