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New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gibson returns with this dazzling love story filled with sizzle, sass, and just a bit of southern charm . . .

"Hello, Ms. Vivian . . . it´s been a long time."

And with those words, Vivian Leigh Rochet nearly melted. It´s been years since she last saw Henry Whitley-Shuler. She was a teenager scrubbing houses for a living. He was the gorgeous son of rich parents, not fit for the likes of her.

Vivian had vowed to get out of Charleston, become a big Hollywood star, and stick it to the snooty girls who made her cry. She got what she wanted-and more-but why does her glamorous life seem so trivial?

Henry got out too . . . making it all the way to Wall Street, until a heart attack forced him to trade in his cufflinks for a good set of hand tools.

Making furniture soothes his soul, but escaping the Whitley-Shuler heritage is nearly impossible. And now he´s come face-to-face with the one who got away. He´s not looking for love. He´s not even looking for sex . . . so why is resisting her the hardest thing he´s ever done?

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Rachel Gibson began her fiction career at age sixteen, when she ran her car into the side of a hill, retrieved the bumper, and drove to a parking lot, where she strategically scattered the car´s broken glass all about. She told her parents she´d been the victim of a hit-and-run and they believed her. She´s been making up stories ever since, although she gets paid better for them nowadays.

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