When recently widowed Joe Murphy "meets" Shawna Mitchell in an online forum,
all he's seeking is advice on keeping his home and his family together. Shawna's compassionate e-mails become his
lifeline, and as months pass their correspondence grows deep and warm. Discovering that Shawna lives only blocks away ...
well, it feels like more than luck. It feels a lot like hope.
With three children to raise, Shawna has no
interest in getting close to another man, let alone one who's got three kids of his own. And the fact that Joe's white
can only complicate matters more. But now, as they navigate family dates and vacations and their own doubts and fears, Joe
and Shawna find themselves moving toward a future that's bright, new, and totally unexpected. Because the only thing
more difficult than uniting two stubborn families would be walking away from something that feels so right ...
