-We can never escape our yesterdays. They make us who we are today.- Like the young of every generation, Bram and Sarah Clyburn are convinced they are unique-that no one has ever felt what they feel for each other. Until Sarah's past threatens to destroy their marriage. When the newly weds announce they're splitting up, Bram's grandparents, Evvie and Edgar, have good reason to think it's a mistake. To prove it they reveal their shocking past and the secret that goes back sixty-five years to the hard times of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, the Great Depression and the Second World War. It was a time...

Michael First seems to have everything a man could want-a wife he adores; beautiful children he delights in; loving parents and siblings who live close by the west Texas ranch where he works. Then fate turns his world upside down. Clare, his wife, is killed in a car accident-and when the police find that the brakes were tampered with, they charge him with the crime. As attorney Lara Stovall gathers evidence on his behalf, she discovers some serious cracks in Michael's perfect marriage. She discovers too a simmering attraction to him, which started when she was his girlfriend in high school,...