"I'm so afraid I'll never see you again," she breathed. "I'll come for you, Amanda--I give you my word!" She had believed him, and she had waited. But now the tick of the delicate gold watch he had thrust into her palm those seven years ago seemed to mock his very words. Perhaps it was time to put childish hopes behind her, to get on with life. Jesse too was haunted--haunted by the soft blue eyes of his first love and by the vow he had made to return. How could he keep such a promise? They were children then, she only fourteen years old and he sixteen. Yet the sweetness of first love could not be erased. Lovely, vulnerable Amanda catches the eye of every man she meets. Most persistent is Elliott, a charming gambler, who believes that time and luck will bring him the winning hand of this woman he must possess at all costs. Jesse is the most eligible bachelor in Salt Lake City, as both Larissa and Alicia readily acknowledge. He comes, he courts, trying to put the past behind him. When chance brings Amanda and Jesse together again, treachery soon separates them; and Amanda is more certain than ever that Jesse, now a Mormon, is not for her. But still she treasures the gold watch and wonders... Set against the backdrop of the early Utah settlement and the California gold rush, First Love, Last Love is romance woven into adventure as Amanda and Jesse sort through the shadows of the past seeking to bring reality into the present.