When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.

When she was just seventeen, Marni Lange loved Brian Webster with a consuming passion. Then a tragic accident tore them apart. Brian's broken body mended, but he never forgave himself for the accident that killed Marni's brother.

"It's a steamy summer night in Georgetown, and Caroline Cooper is feeling the heat, in more ways than one. Her job, her family, her love life: everything's reached a boiling point and Caroline needs to cool off. But when she opens her apartment window for air, she finds herself staring at one very hot neighbor on the fire escape across the courtyard. He's tall, dark, handsome, and as scantily clad as she is. With fifty feet of night separating them,...