"A love story, one filled with the rawness of and risk and redemption and the dry humor that is the backbone of the South. Emma has loved Jack since she was a little girl. But he was more than 20 years older and was raised by her grandmother, Miss Margret, so he's always been more of an uncle than anything else. He's never seen Emma as anything but a child. Jack's been gone for ten years and Emma is now raising her daughter in the same house where she and Jack were raised. But she's never stopped loving Jack. Then he finally comes home for one last visit, everything Emma thinks she knows and believes will be challenged. Jack has made no secret of the fact that he'll probably be dead within a year. He does have one secret though, a secret he's protected for years; and that secret could change everything"--Page 4 of cover.