It was just like a scene from a soap opera: stunning woman meets handsome doctor, falls in love and...But to Katherine Mallory it was all too real.

Needing a vacation from her famous role as the bed-hopping bad girl of TV's most popular soap, Katherine returned to her old home town. And there was Joe Mercer, the carefree hell-raiser turned town doctor who'd once stolen her heart. Before long Katherine was back in Joe's arms, caught up by passionate longings neither could resist. Could Katherine give up her glamorous work to become a country doctor's wife...and if not, could she bear the heartache of losing him again?