Joanna was brought up to believe life is meant to follow a certain path. You meet a wonderful man, get married, have children--all in that order. Maybe, if you're really ambitious, you have a career too. But a career isn't what Joanna wants. She wants a family.

In the early 1970s, at nineteen-years-old, Joanna was the first of her friends to complete steps one and two of the plan. She thought she'd be the first to complete step three as well. Now, thirteen years later, she's still holding onto her dream of having a child.

Of course, life sometimes offers us our dreams in ways...

His one wish? To escape. Cleanly. Beautifully. Without guilt or uncertainty. Without hurting anyone.

Broken by love,  Lincoln Fraser is back in the city of his birth. He’s been abandoned, betrayed, and doesn’t see how he can ever trust again.

Kali Johnson is stuck in a world that feels too much for her. Her husband’s gone, her son won’t talk, and her apartment is full of rats. Fearful she's failing at life, all she wants is a second chance to make things right.

When a freak accident places Kali and her...