Sixteen years is a long time to wait for your true love to reappear, and, anyway, Nicki Johnson couldn"t wait for the impossible to happen. Hard life lessons have taught her that fairy tales are children"s stories, and fate is cruel. Burying her hopes, she"s spent the last sixteen years focused and driven toward her career, and it"s landed her with a job at the White House with a gem of a boyfriend. But when her high school love, Adam Kincaid, walks into the White House as a BBC reporter, Nicki"s world is thrown into turmoil as she relives their past. Adam has come back for her, but has he arrived too late?