After losing her beloved husband in a car accident Alexandra is left to raise her teenage son alone. Coming to terms with life as a single mother is difficult enough yet now she must face the sins of her past when Garret Coulson returns to town. Grandson of the town's founder the wealthy and powerful Garret Coulson fell in love with another man's wife resulting in a self-imposed exile. With that man dead Garret can return to claim what should have been his. For ten years Alexandra has kept the secret of her infidelity. The fact that she is now a widow does not make that secret any less painful to reveal.