New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas returns to Friday Harbor with this story of two broken hearts who come together-with a little help-to make each other whole...
The youngest of the Nolan brothers, Alex still bears the scars of being raised by alcoholic parents, and when his own marriage fails-as he knew it would-he sinks deeper into a whiskey bottle. His brother Sam hopes to pull him out with a project to remodel a house for a friend of his girlfriend Lucy. And Alex has another ally-the ghost of a World War II pilot, who may be a booze-induced hallucination or may be exactly the spirit he needs to guide him.
Zoë Hoffman is no stranger to heartache-after her own parents abandoned her, the only family member who showed her love was her grandmother. Even after her husband's betrayal, Zoe hasn't given up on love. A chef at a local B&B, her dream is to give her grandmother, who's suffering from dementia, the gift of restoring her beautiful home by the lake. When she meets a handsome but brooding carpenter named Alex, she sees beneath his wounded exterior to the man he could be.
As for Alex, he may be seeing a ghost, but in Zoë's kind eyes, he's also starting to get a vision of a future in which love might have a place after all...
