It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her��husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish��village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old��twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a summer��of innocence... but all that is about to change��this fateful summer of 1962 when American��millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his��irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love��and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old��traditions begin to crumble away.... It was a summer of��love that would never come again.... A time that��has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy's��compelling family drama... a novel you will never forget.