Sweet Water — Laurie Lewis

Olivia joined friends Hudson Bauer and Jeff McAllister in developing a business, but while she and Hudson dreamed of using their success to improve the world, Jeff set his sights and fortunes on Olivia. On the most important night of Hudson's life, Olivia and Jeff suddenly eloped. Betrayed, Hudson ended the partnership, throwing Jeff and Olivia aside as he made his own fortune.Ten years later, a tragic accident leaves Olivia's body and heart battered, and her dreams of a family destroyed. She is forced to accept Hudson's offer to recuperate at his parents' empty house on Oregon's Cannon Beach, but her return to the place where the three friends once summered casts new light on her hasty marriage, and on the enemy she once called friend. When Hudson offers Olivia a job doing humanitarian work, something hopeful and familiar awakens in her. But guilt over Jeff's death leaves her stuck between grief and the memory of what she and Hudson almost had. All her life, other people have made decisions for Olivia, but now the future is up to her. That is if she can make peace with the past and embrace a future with a man she once hated, before Hudson walks away again, closing the door on their possibilities forever.