How do you live and learn when your pride is bigger than your heart...and your hurts are worn like medals? Helen Barton lives her life by her words, and they aren't always carefully selected. Her bitterness is alive and well, flourishing wherever she goes. She meets her equal the summer of 1925. If possible, Malcolm Hanover may be more cynical than she is. Is this a match made in Heaven, or something more sinister? Often, lessons are learned the hard way. Is it better to light your path with a torch of revenge and bitterness...or accept the hurts you have and seek a place to heal? The answers are there for them, if they are willing to heed them.