Isabella Coleman wasnโt looking for love when she attended her cousin Wadeโs wedding in Boston, but she hadnโt counted on the brideโs father, Cabot Lodge. Heโs older, wiser and one of the most handsome, charming, and funny men sheโs ever met. Izzie is instantly smitten, and after a wonderful time at the wedding, sheโs certain sheโll hear from Cabot again soon. But she doesnโt hear a word from him until sheโs back in Boston and invites him to dinner. After yet another fantastic time together, sheโs once again optimisticโand 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. Heโs 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 doesnโt 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 canโand staying with her for as long as sheโll have him. Now Izzy and Cabot are hunkered down in her cozy home in Vermont, and things are starting to get real. Theyโll both have to decide if their time together is a temporary interlude or the start of something lasting.