Life has taught Ally Brennan to stay on her guard--even in quiet Langley-by-the-Sea. A resourceful single mom, she's content to play her beloved viola for an audience of one, fiercely protective of the stable life she's created for her young son. She gives no hint of secret fears, a musical career abandoned, or the man she once loved who shadows their happiness.

When a burglary threatens Ally's peaceful existence, it thrusts her into an unlikely friendship with her neighbor Rees Davies. As their families' lives entwine, Ally and Rees resist the attraction between them,...