From "a wonderful storyteller" of Southern fiction: A trusting teacher who loves with all her heart and a successful lawyer who is naïve about women meet in this 1950s sweet romance of love and deceit.Fran Wilson secretly gives her heart to Bobby Joe Anderson when they meet. More than a year later, he hasn't mentioned the word love. What if he has no romantic emotions toward her and never will?Bobby Joe Anderson is a successful lawyer who can passionately argue cases in a courtroom. However, when it comes to relationships and expressing his feelings, he's innocently naïve. But if he doesn't wise up, he may lose Fran, whom he loves.Fran adores Bobby Joe; however, her patience with him wears thin, and she dates a co-worker she's just met. But when the new man's behavior becomes disturbing, she feels unsafe and questions her association with a stranger. Will Fran return to Bobby Joe for her happily ever after? Will he accept Fran after what he considers her betrayal?
