Gunnar Bond is broken. Three years ago, he lived through the car crash that took his wife and twins away from himthough lived barely describes his current state. Giving up professional hockey, going off-grid, and drinking himself into oblivion are his coping mechanisms. Another is texting his dead wife about his days without her. Therapeutic? Doubtful. Crazy? Definitely. But those messages into the ether are virtually the only thing stopping him from spiraling to even darker places. Until someone texts back...Sadie Yates is losing it. Suddenly guardian to a little sister she doesnt know and a misbehaving hound shed rather not know at all, shes had to upend her (sort of) glamorous life in L.A. and move back to Chicago. The nanny has quit, the moneys running out, and her job is on the line. The last thing she needs is her sisters hockey camp counselor, a judgmental Viking type, telling her she sucks at this parenting lark. Thank the goddess for her sweet, sensitive, andfingers crossedsexy text buddy who always knows the right thing to say. In the same city at last, they can finally see if their online chemistry is mirrored in real life. She just needs to set up a meeting...A ruined man who claims to have used up all his love is surely a bad bet, but Sadies never been afraid of a challenge...even one that might shatter her heart into a million pieces.