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After the heartbreaking loss of her mother, Emory Blair finds herself going through the motions of life, trapped between her grief and the pressure to follow in her father's footsteps by finishing college and going to medical school. Torn with how quickly her father has moved on, Emory puts her feelings aside and attends his wedding, where she unexpectedly forms a romantic connection with her father's best friend, Jacob Young, a man twenty years her senior. Determined to protect her father's emotions while trying to follow her own path, Emory must come to terms with the effect her relationship with Jake will have on her father's fragile heart and ultimately choose between the life her father wants her to live and the life she is desperate to live for herself. T/ Loss of a parent, fatal car accidents, and grief