Jacquelyn Champagne LeRoux has been married to the only man she has ever loved for twenty-five years. When he dies suddenly at the age of fifty-two, she is left wealthy but desolate with an underlying fear of living the rest of her life alone and longing for physical love. Only four months after Cameron's death, she meets widowed surgeon, Ignatius Moretti and feels immediate attraction. Feelings of shame, guilt and betrayal, strengthened by her mother's attitude, cause Jacquelyn to fight her attraction. He is persistent, however, and she succumbs to his romantic moves. Will she finally resolve her feelings of guilt and shame and find happiness again?