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Three Rivers Press
November 2009
On Sale: November 10, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 0307393666
EAN: 9780307393661
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Women's Fiction
βA classic romance. . . . Itβs been done countless times, but rarely as engagingly as Shelton does it in this novel.β βBoston Globe
Jamie is a free-spirited artist and devoted single mom with a slightly unorthodox living situation: in exchange for free rent, she looks after the grandson of her much older landlord. But when Harris Goddard dies of a heart attackβnaked and splayed out in Jamieβs bedβnobody believes that he and Jamie were just roommates.
With the rumor mill buzzing and two small children to care for, Jamieβs life is further upended when Harrisβs handsome son, Nate, a charismatic jet-setting salesman, shows up unannounced at his childhood home to settle the estate and reclaim the five-year-old son he left behind.
As Jamieβs and Nateβs highly guarded worlds collide, can these two damaged souls manage to see the good in each other . . . and maybe more?
βSheltonβs warm, sentimental love story is told with a tenderness of heart and a nurturing eye.β βRomantic Times
βQuite wonderful. . . . Like Anne Tyler, Shelton seems to possess a nearly boundless capacity for empathy. She has the ability to make us love her characters for their faults, not in spite of them.β βConnecticut Post
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