Less than two years after losing Micheal, her editor, mentor, companion and lover, to cancer, successful novelist Tara Cooper is struggling to move on, both personally and professionally. Without him, she is unable to continue working on the series that her entire career was built upon on... the magic just isn't there anymore. Convinced that she has to do something drastic, Tara escapes to the Florida panhandle, ostensibly to write a new book, but she secretly hopes that a new start professionally will also equal a new start personally. Unfortunately, the past comes back to haunt her when she...

When Abby Donovan decided to escape the looming holiday season and spend Christmas in Destin, Florida, she didn't expect to find anything other than the peace and tranquility that had been absent from her life since the death of her husband, David, three years before. She definitely wasn't expecting to meet Paul Kirkland, or to be swiftly and certainly swept off her feet... was this simply a casual fling that would end when Abby and Paul returned to their homes after their vacations ended, or was it the beginning of something more?