En apariencia, la vida de Maggy es idílica. Su marido, Lyle, es un hombre poderoso, perteneciente a la aristocracia estadounidense. En público, trata a su mujer como a una reina, pero puertas adentro, la realidad es otra. Lyle se complace en atormentarla, pero Maggy ha jurado guardar el secreto de su infelicidad porque podría perder a su amado hijo, un hijo que no es de él. Una noche, Maggy reencuentra a su primer amor, Nick, en quien no dejó de pensar en los últimos doce años. Pero el regreso de Nick a su vida entraña un serio riesgo. Si descubre quién es en realidad del hijo de Maggy, la vida de éste correrá peligro.

From BackCover:
She was Mrs. Lyle Forrest now, the coolly elegant wife of Louisville's most prominent publisher, the slum girl whose dreams -- and nightmares -- came true the night she married the multimillionaire old enough to be her father. For twelve years Maggy played the role of beautiful, devoted wife, the burnished jewel in Lyle's crown, mother of the child he adored. She did it for David, the son who could never know the price she paid to protect him, would never see her scars...

Suddenly Maggy's hard-won control shattered when Nick King came back to claim her. It was twelve years since they'd parted, twelve years of fear and loathing at the hands of Lyle Forrest. She couldn't afford to remember the soul-searing passion she'd known so long ago in the arms of the only man she'd ever loved. She must think of David, her son, Lyle's most potent weapon, and not of the man she could never forger, Nick, who's returned to set her free...

A riveting novel of love, lust, and savagery in Kentucky's bluegrass country--a spellbinding story of a mother's sacrifice, a dynasty's power, and one man's passion to reclaim the woman who was born to be his. ( )