Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Notes and Observations on Pictures: Chiefly of the Venetian School, Being Extracts from His Italian Sketch Books (1859)

What does a woman say to a handsome man who introduces himself graveside? Virginia Lawrence reluctantly says hello to Parker Gilchrist, but his southern charm and humor makes wanting to know him better hard to resist. Teaching art and raising her teenage son in Brunswick, Georgia, is Virginiaas world. When her mother dies, she is forced to confront an unsettling past, a past that topples her comfortable world. As she dares to love again, Parker gives her the strength to face doubts about what her heart has to offer and can accept. Parkeras comfortable life in Savannah as a biology teacher and father to two teens is shattered when a sister dies in a tragic accident. Virginia eases his anguish and gives him a second opportunity to love. But unbeknown to them both, Virginia is at the center of the shocking truth about his sisteras deathaa truth that threatens the possibility for love.