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