SPOILER: This is a reconciliation story. He cheats, and she takes him back 15 years later.
During High school, he ends up taking another girl, someone in his wealthy circle to an event at their posh Country Club behind the heroine's back. He did not take the heroine, whom he was best of friends with and whom he thought was his true-love because she was just the janitor's daughter and he was ashamed of that. It was an important event, where he wanted to make a good impression, therefor, he ended up taking a girl his parents have been pushing him to date. That night he ends up cheating on the heroine with this girl, on the golf course.
To make matters worse, and to add further humiliation for the heroine, everyone in their High school finds out about it. What was especially heartbreaking was that, the hero and the heroine were both virgins and they had planned to be each others first on their Prom night, but he ended up going to this event instead.
And his big explanation: He was arrogant, immature , spoiled and he was over confident. He thought he had everything under control. He drank too much and the girl was sexually aggressive. Translation: typical hormonal teenage boy behavior - Rich and spoiled boy got drunk and got horny. No big ah-Ha moment in this book.
What disappointed me the most about this book was that it was the heroine who was shoving her tongue down the hero's throat first, and all this before hearing his explanation or even an apology. For awhile there, I thought she would be a different sort of a heroine, a strong woman with a spine firmer than a over-cooked noodle..but no, as is the case with most of these cheating romance, she just went to mush without much ado.
She isn't all bad. I was quite happy to come across a heroine who went on with her life. She's made a successful career out of something she loved and she almost got married (although he also turned out to be another cheating pig - poor girl).
This was a Happily-for-Now kind of book for me personally. I understood his actions when he was just a boy, I did not understand hers as a grown up woman. He was suppose to her great first love, she still had feelings left over from their past, so what was she doing exchanging spit with some douchebag who betrayed her so thoroughly without even an apology?
If he ever cheats or betrays her again, she would most likely lay down to take it like any proper doormat.