Isabella Coleman wasnβt looking for love when she attended her cousin Wadeβs wedding in Boston, but she hadnβt counted on the brideβs father, Cabot Lodge. Heβs older, wiser and one of the most handsome, charming, and funny men sheβs ever met. Izzie is instantly smitten, and after a wonderful time at the wedding, sheβs certain sheβll hear from Cabot again soon. But she doesnβt hear a word from him until sheβs back in Boston and invites him to dinner. After yet another fantastic time together, sheβs once again optimisticβand once again disappointed when she gets nothing but silence from him. Cabot has his reasons for keeping his distance. After his former wife took off with their baby daughter, he spent twenty-five years looking for Mia, who suddenly reappeared in his life as a grown woman with a new husband. Heβs never been happier than since Mia returned, but those twenty-five years of searching left him with a deep well of bitterness that a sweet woman like Izzie doesnβt need in her life. Until Izzy is seriously injured in a car accident, and all bets are off. Bitterness aside, Cabot can think of only getting to her as soon as he possibly canβand staying with her for as long as sheβll have him. Now Izzy and Cabot are hunkered down in her cozy home in Vermont, and things are starting to get real. Theyβll both have to decide if their time together is a temporary interlude or the start of something lasting.