A young widow from charming Shelter Rock Cove, Maine, Annie Galloway has finally found the strength to start a new life. All she needs is courage, and time. The last thing she needs is a handsome, charming next-door neighbor...

If home is where the heart is, then Ellen Markowitz might as well set up house in the delivery room of Shelter Rock Cove General. She loves being an OB-GYN—and she's fallen hard for the charming coastal village where she's lived for the last three years. That's not the only thing she's fallen hard for ... but her crush on Dr. Hall Talbot was supposed to remain a secret. And it did . . . until the morning after an unforgettable night with him. But Ellen just wants to forget about it . . . that is, if Hall, the town, and fate—in the person of her half-sister, Deirdre—will let her. Leave it to Deirdre to show up on Ellen's doorstep with a broken-down car, a harp, and a very large dog named Stanley. Deirdre is still looking for her Prince Charming, a man with the soul of a poet and a Bill Gates bank account. Until she finds him, Deirdre needs a place to crash, and that's where Ellen comes in. Ellen has learned the hard way that nothing is quite the way it seems—not family and certainly not love. But for one magical summer, the lessons of the past will be forgotten as Ellen finds out that sometimes hope and love have a way of sneaking back into the heart when least expected .. .