The frustratingly hectic and busy life Melanie led as secretary to the Managing Director of a business empire allowed her no time for hesitation when her aunts wrote and asked her to help them run their peaceful hotel. She went. And the relief she found in a forgotten way of life turned into love for a man she had forgotten, a childhood sweetheart who seemed to be part of everything she loved. And who seemed to love her.

But time stood still for the boy back home. While the passing years made a woman of Melanie, they did little for Robin. His flights of fancy now seemed to her more like petty self-indulgences; his concern for her whereabouts seemed like a childish attempt to control her. She wondered about his inability to free himself from his mother's apron strings. To complicate her plans even further, a handsome stranger appeared . . . and suddenly, for the first time in her life, Melanie found herself falling in love!