For two years, resentment, anger and pain has kept him alive. Abandoned by his feckless wife, his son taken, Brett Madison has become a changed man. As circumstances have changed his life for the better, he is not the easy gentleman he used to be. Betrayal and bitterness have hardened him. He won't be that man again, but can his wife accept him as he is now, stricter, and not willing to accept anything less than submission to his will or to his hand?
Charlotte Madison learns manipulation from the masters - her parents. Unaware of the danger of pushing a man too far, she carelessly abandons what is real for an allusion of what could be, only to be lured into a dangerous scheme where she is an unknowing pawn.
As two reawakened hearts open and heal, they realize that love, trust and loyalty will carry them beyond their past mistakes and into a new loving future.
