This mesmerising debut is part love story, part mystery, telling the captivating story of two lovers torn apart by tragedy and the secrets they kept of one devastating night. <br/><br/>I'm the most authentic version of myself when I'm around Jack. We've known each other since we were kids, and our relationship was always one of mudpies and mocking. <br/><br/>Then everything changed.<br/><br/>Beautiful Kate, my best friend, disappeared on a moonlit beach after Jack dumped her for me. Jack was a suspect and, sure of his innocence, I lied to protect him. I know Jack didn't kill her. Our betrayal did.<br/><br/>Thirteen years later, I am thirty, childless and single, attempting to renovate my life rescuing a rundown worker's cottage. All is as it should be in my safe little world - until Jack buys the vacant lot behind my house… and the feelings that we buried all those years ago - the guilt, the love and the pain - resurface.<br/><br/>We can't keep running away from the past - and to move forward we have to know what really happened to Kate.<br/><br/>After years of struggling as a single mother, Jodie Ashton has given up on love and passion. What she craves now is security for herself and her beloved daughter Milly. And marriage to widower Alex McGregor, the owner of the prosperous Glenevelyn cattle station in East Gippsland, will certainly offer that. If only he wasn't so much older and so controlling.<br/><br/>Needing space to decide her future, Jodie reluctantly agrees to a girls - only weekend at the Riverton rodeo …<br/><br/>Meanwhile, cowboy Nate McGregor vows off women, after his latest one - night stand costs him his job in the Northern Territory. Perhaps it's time to head back to his family home, Glenevelyn, to check out for himself the 'gold - digger' his father seems determined to marry. <br/><br/>But first, on his way through Riverton, he plans to stop off at a rodeo.<br/><br/>Two lives are about to collide in one passionate moment - with devastating results...