Billionaire chemist Max Varela is selling his company and leaving New York for good when Emily Wade bursts into his office, desperate for his help in funding her program for disadvantaged kids and shelter dogs. Seven years ago, he fell in love with her when she was married to another man. To fight the unbidden attraction, he cut off all contact—but he’s never forgotten her.

Ever since her husband died, Emily has poured her heart and soul into the after-school care center. Seeing Max reawakens the pain of her loss, but it also brings unexpected hope for the future. As emotions thought long gone resurface, the two begin a passionate affair that seems destined for a fairy-tale ending.

That is, until Max reveals that he’s moving to Chicago in a matter of weeks and wants Emily to uproot her daughter and her life to come with him. If a second chance at love is possible, someone’s got to give.

Nancy Herkness is the award-winning author of the Wager of Hearts and Whisper Horse series, as well as several other contemporary romance novels. A graduate in English literature and creative writing from Princeton University, she has earned the New England Readers’ Choice award, the Book Buyers Best Top Pick honor, and the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award and is a two-time nominee for the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award.

Nancy is a native of West Virginia but now lives in suburban New Jersey with her husband, two mismatched dogs, and an elderly cat.

To learn more about Nancy and her books, please visit www.NancyHerkness.com or her blog, www.fromthegarret.wordpress.com, or find her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/nancyherkness, Twitter @NancyHerkness, and Pinterest at www.pinterest.com/nancyherkness.