Maybe Laurel Runyan was crazy...at least that's what everyone seemed to think in Lucius, Montana, when she'd suffered a breakdown after her father supposedly murdered her mother. Now, after a twelve-year absence, she'd returned to bury her estranged father...and her past.

But discovering that her first love, Sheriff Shane Golightly, was her new neighbor wasn't the mark of a sane woman. Particularly when just the sound of his molasses-smooth voice recalled the one and only time they'd made love -- and repopened old wounds. Laurel vowed she'd just make Shane recogize the strong, independent woman she'd become and move on, but the sheriff seemed determined to make Laurel give Lucius -- and him -- a second chance....