When her mother dies, seven years after leaving her hometown of New Hope, Cally Fisher returns to her childhood home to help her sisters resettle. Unbeknownst to her, she is now confronted with her own past. Above all, she dreads facing the man whose gaze takes her back to the young girl she once was, the things she has done, the secrets she must never reveal, and the future she thought she had lost forever. Everything would be simpler if William hated her. But the professor and artist who thought he would never see her again knows he can forgive his first love. This time, he will fight for her. He desires her. Rebirth. A story of second chances and first love. A sensual and captivating novel with the feel of a detective story, which brings to light secrets from the past thought buried. Protagonists who do not give up on finding salvation in love.