About the book: 1999 / Has the past really taught Kate Valera nothing? After all, she is no longer a young, naive girl - she has a nine-year-old daughter. When Kate accidentally encountered Jefferson Parrish, who came with his mother and daughter to relax at his country house, she was not going to even come close to these snobs - “summer residents,” as she called the rich the audience that filled their seaside town in the summer months. But you never know what gift fate has in store for you…