Tessa Jones lives a life of quiet reparation. Eleven years ago Dermot Finnegan, her first love, sweet-talked her out of virginity, stole her car and skipped town. Her revenge had been quick and decisive: she stole five thousand dollars from Finn's Uncle Max and framed Finn for the crime. Eleven years and one freakishly good investment later, she's still soothing her bad karma by embezzling funds back into Max's Diner and writing cheques in Finn's name to the needy of Lucy's Lake, anything as long as she doesn't have to admit what she's done. Finn knows better than to pursue redemption, but he tries anyway. And he's surprised to find that the very people he thought would form a lynch mob at his return are hailing him a town hero. At the centre of this mystery is Tessa, the one woman he can't seem to forget...This is a lighthearted story about good intentions going wrong, bad deeds made right and first love that just won't go away even when you tell it to.