Promise Me Love — Lynn Bartlett

She thought she could never love again.

She was just sixteen when she met Neil Banning. Innocent of love and its deception, she was shattered to learn how cruelly her heart could be broken. Eden Thackery, the most desirable young lady among New York's gilded society, was left devastated and dishonored.

Hoping to forget Neil Banning and her shame, Eden married her guardian, a gruff self-made man who loved her more deeply than she at first understood. It wasn't until years later, after Eden found happiness with her husband and her daughter on their Texas ranch, that Eden and Neil met again.

Time had changed him. He too had suffered betrayal. And though it frightened Eden to think she might want him still, their passion was rekindled by a desire not even her hatred could overcome. Yearning and anguish tore at her heart. Yet destiny had decided -- and in a brutal tragedy that struck swiftly on the lawless Texas plains, Eden discovered the impossibility of forgetting first love.