1887, Bar Harbor Maine: A woman's sexual odyssey begins when she returns home to untangle the lies, distortions, and secrets of her past... Ten years ago Lily Hill was involved in a sex scandal that led to a suspicious death and Doyle Donovan, the man she once loved, was the prime suspect. When Lily returns to the home she both loves and fears, she hides the fact that she has been receiving anonymous threats for years, threats that warn her to stay away from town. But now that she is home Lily has a special goal in mind - to clear Doyle's name of the stigma of scandal. Lily desperately wants to gain his forgiveness; if in doing so she must make herself his sexual slave, then so be it.
Louisa Trent is happiest writing and so she writes all the time, even when the veggies are in need of peeling and the dust bunnies are in need of vacuuming. When she was far too young to contemplate anything as serious as marriage, she snatched up a boy with a sense of humor and led him right to the altar. Somewhere along the way, she picked up a couple of academic degrees which she uses each and every day, though certainly not in the way she intended to use them. Blessed with three funny sons and a husband who still makes her giggle, she lives in a quaint New England town in a messy home surrounded by flowers and laughter.