Hurt one too many times in the past; Sloan Fairchild isn't interested in love. Instead; she pours all her energy into running her elegant bed-and-breakfast inn. But when her best friend asks her to house her fiancé for a month; Sloan opens the doors of Fairchild House to Carter Madison...and meets a man who turns her world--and her concept of herself--upside down.rnrnSloan tries to ignore the feelings this handsome man stirs in her...tries to stop herself from dreaming dreams that can never be. Yet when Carter reveals his own desire; Sloan will find herself facing a heart-wrenching decision: to love for the moment; to walk away forever; or to fight to have it all.