First published 1995
Lee Reston has spent twenty years building a life from wreckage. Widowed young, she raised three children alone while growing her business into something solid and profitable. At forty-four, she knows how to survive loss. Then her eldest son dies in a motorcycle crash, and survival becomes something else entirely. In her grief, Lee finds herself drawn to Tom, her son's thirty-year-old best friend who shared her loss. What begins as shared mourning becomes something neither expected. Lee discovers that love can arrive at the worst possible moment, in the most impossible circumstances. She must choose between the safety of her carefully constructed life and a relationship that challenges everything she thought she knew about herself. The fourteen-year age difference seems manageable compared to the weight of loving someone who reminds her daily of what she has lost.
Genres: romance, grief, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
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