Happy and innocent, Dawn's daughter Christie has grown up in the safest,
most loving of homes...
Yet Christie can't help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's
Cove... a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and
the many questions no one, not even Dawn, will answer. Only one person
can always chase away her blues: Gavin, Daddy Jimmy's young and handsome
stepbrother.
Then, in one harsh night, Christie's world is changed forever. She is
shocked to discover her Uncle Philip's unbrotherly love for her mother
but even worse is the way he now looks at Christie, his eyes bright with
tortured passion. Fleeing to New York City, she finds her real father...
a pathetic, helpless has-been. Desperate and heartbroken, she turns to
Gavin, who travels with her to The Meadows, the plantation where
Christie was born. In Gavin's arms, in the first, tender moments of true
love, Christie finds a refuge from her painful memories. But The Meadows
is blighted by its own dark secrets-- and all too soon Christie is torn
from Gavin's embrace. Now as black storms of evil gather around her,
Christie must struggle to break the cruel bonds of the past... to defy
the curse that has haunted Cutler's Cove for generations...