When you’re a third-grade teacher with a complicated family and a surprise thank you note from a dashing Naval officer, what can you do but start writing him letters? Maggie’s love-life is in a rut, but she has her job, her friends, and a wicked baking habit. She sees her new pen pal as an innocent diversion—until he isn’t. Lt. Commander F. Hawkins is a complicated man with a steadfast earnestness that can’t help but appeal. He’s more than a little old-fashioned and about to lose his heart to an elementary school teacher from North Carolina.