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When a child of 13, Anne was raped by her uncle and no one in her family would believe her. She ran away and in the years to come, she manages to become a lawyer in California. She returns home for her grandfather's funeral only to find all the ghosts of her past have not been swept away.

A survivor of child sexual abuse, Anne Garnett leaves home far behind at a young age and becomes a high-powered, beautiful -- yet romantically untouchable lawyer. Until love enters the ice princess's life, and her beloved grandfather dies. She finds she must go home and face faces of relatives she'd rather forget in her painful memories of incest. Anne's character is so real, as are the characters readers meet from her past and in the present. This is an example of a romance novel that dips into one of life's true horrors -- incest -- and doesn't romanticize it or try to make it any less pretty than it is.