Janie descended the stairway and it was like watching my whole life walk toward me. It was 1974, and Janie Thomas knew exactly what her future needed. She wanted to travel the country and she wanted Rich Jordan’s attention. Traveling would have to wait. So, she planned to invest all her spare time and energy into getting Rich to ask her to the homecoming dance. She’d be his girl by the end of the school year. But something always gets in the way of the best laid plans… Joseph Heyborn was new in town. The cute, flirtatious, new kid, was tired of traveling the country for his father’s job. He had his own dreams—and they didn’t include following in his father’s footsteps. He wanted a place to call home and a chance to learn his trade. More than envying Janie’s home and family, though, Joseph found himself bewitched with the pretty seventeen-year-old. Janie Thomas had captured his attention in every possible way. He found himself sleeping, eating, and breathing Janie. Now, Joseph just had to figure out how to make the girl look his way.