"A brilliantly realized romance..."
— The Strand Book Store, NYC
— The Strand Book Store, NYC
"[A] lyrical first novel about love and loss."
—Publisher's Weekly
—Publisher's Weekly
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When unhappily married Fiona Edwards answers the door of her farmhouse bed and breakfast, she discovers a tall man shouldering a hulking backpack. He is unshaven, sweat-soaked...but arrestingly handsome. American Alec Hudson has carried the ashes of his ex-wife from London's Heathrow Airport to the mountains of North Wales. Honoring her request to scatter them atop the towering mountain directly behind Fiona’s farm, he attempts to fulfill her wish, but the weather stops him. As Alec waits for safer conditions, he and Fiona are drawn together by loss and by a passion neither thought would ever reappear in their lives. When Alec stumbles upon something he never expected to see, he is faced with a series of choices he hoped never to make. An evocative story of honorable people struggling with the complexities of fidelity, and of the hope for a second chance at love. |