Millie Jo Gordon cannot remember a time before she loved Wyatt Rawley--at age five, she told her parents that she would marry him someday, a tale retold since her childhood.
Now, many years later, Millie is seventeen and more deeply in love than ever.
At twenty-three, sweet, passionate Wy, only a few semesters away from practicing veterinary medicine, secretly returns those feelings.
In the ripe heat of summer, Wy at last confesses and the two share a week of sublime happiness before a heartbrea.