Two years after death ended her fifteen-year marriage to her first and only love, Samantha Mills is certain she'll never love again. When her best friend guilts her into agreeing to a blind date with a man so unlike her late-husband, she can't conceive of finding him attractive. Yet she does.
Don Westen is a man ready to settle down. When he meets Samantha, he's smitten. He soon has to decide if he has the patience and fortitude required to win the heart and passion of a woman still in love with her deceased husband.
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