Nobody knows what Gemma Clayton went through on the night of the 1996 Marietta High School senior prom, between running after Judd and Garth Newell’s car as it left River Bend Park and limping into her friend Neve Shepherd’s street two hours later.

Soon, though, she’s planning to reveal the truth. When her wonderful daughter Bree reaches her eighteenth birthday, it’ll be time for Gemma to turn herself in to the police and confess her involvement in what happened that night. She’s always intended to do it, but she couldn’t bear the idea of her baby growing up with a mom in prison, so she’s made herself this promise – when Bree turns eighteen.

What Gemma hasn’t counted on, though, is a man entering her life after all this time – a gorgeous, generous, honorable man living just over her back fence, a man named Dylan Saddler with a dark past and a wonderful daughter of his own.