Emmalyn Ross never thought a person could
feel this alone.
Sustaining a marriage with a man who’s not by her side is
no easy task,
especially since her husband currently resides behind
impenetrable prison
walls. His actions stole her heart’s desire and gave
their relationship a
court-mandated five-year time-out. What didn’t fall apart
that night fell
apart in the intervening years.
Now, on a self-imposed exile to Madeline Island—one of
the Apostle
Islands of Lake Superior—Emmalyn starts rehabbing an old
hunting cottage
they’d purchased when life made sense. Restoring it may
put a roof over
her head, but a home needs more than a roof and walls,
just as a marriage
needs more than vows and a license. With only a handful
of months before
her husband is released, Emmalyn must figure out if and
how they can ever
be a couple again. And his silence isn’t helping.