Crystal Creek…where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures.

Vernon Trent has loved Carolyn Townsend ever since they were in the first grade together. But he never told her, and by the time he came back from Vietnam, she was married.

Now, twenty years later, the widowed Carolyn can sense there is something Vern wantsto share with her. Suddenly she isn't sure she wants to hear what her old friend has to say. It could change things between them forever.