Taste of Honey — Eileen Goudge

With Carson Springs still reeling from Samantha Kiley's romance with a charismatic younger man, her best friend Gerry Fitzgerald fires up the town with another sensational scandal. The child Gerry gave up for adoption twenty-eight years ago--and kept secret from her two children and ex- husband--has come back into her life looking for answers. Now a successful attorney engaged to her childhood sweetheart, Claire Brewster defied her adoptive parents to meet Gerry and her family--most of whom are not eager to welcome Claire into the fold--and winds up falling for another man. In the meantime, Gerry's feelings for her lover, renowned symphony conductor Aubrey Roellinger, have begun to crack open her cautious heart in ways she'd never imagined. But it isn't until an accident nearly claims the lives of one of Carson Springs' own that Gerry finds the courage to let go of old fears and take that final leap into the unknown...