"Can the Colonel tell me why my son has another man's name, or why a woman who swore to love me forever married a stranger?" Jesse Duran's life was a tissue of lies, but she had no choice. Only a respectable woman could find decent work and she needed to support her son. Her job at the private playground for the rich, South Fork, near Johnstown gave her a safe world. But then sinfully charming, Clayton Royer, walked back into her life. He was known as a confirmed bachelor but he was courting Annabelle Lytle, a very rich young woman. Would that be enough to keep Jesse and her secrets safe or would he destroy her again? Clayton Royer journeyed to South Fork because he could not help himself. It was very near where Jesse had lived. Perhaps he'd learn something of her fate. Clayton had guarded his heart from everything but Jesse's memory. His shock at coming face to face with her at South Fork awoke old memories and a burning passion. But there was a secret that Jesse was keeping and he could not leave until he learned what it was. Set in the days prior to and during the great Johnstown flood of 1889, this historical romance sweeps the reader away on a wave of passion and turmoil. Patty A. Wilson weaves a tense story of a young woman who is fighting to hide her history, protect her son, and not fall back under the spell of her former lover, Clayton Royer.