Claire Byrd's family raised her to be a politician's wife, which was too bad. They should have raised her to be a politician. It's been twenty-five years since her disgrace and she has spent that time in the shadows, doing her duty, dressing the part, but paying penance for her one indiscretion--getting pregnant at eighteen and giving up her child for adoption. Now, she is making a clean slate of it. She means to tell the truth about her past--to tell her child, tell the baby-daddy, tell the small-minded townsfolks. But now, another scandal has broken. There's a missing manuscript, mistaken identity, and a couple of young people who just may be sharing more than a cup of coffee. They may be sharing the same gene pool.