

Now, ten years after her death, a woman named Eve Sumner appears, bearing not just Mallory's smile, but also secrets only Mallory herself could know. But Mallory never stopped trying to reconcile with Waters until the day she was found raped and murdered on a New Orleans pier. When her seething passion threatened to destroy them both, he ended their affair. But her captivating beauty and intelligence hid a dark side that only John Waters was allowed to see. Mallory Candler was the quintessential Southern Belle.

" sends him hurtling back in time, to a past he has never quite forgotten: the most passionate affair of his life. Then one day his world is turned inside out by a single word spoken from the lips of a beautiful stranger. John Waters is a successful petroleum geologist with the perfect family.
