Christmas EveKate Hart's husband of twenty-five years has just walked out on her and an old station wagon has broken don in the rain in front of her elegant California home. The driver is a handsome young Iowa farmer. His family needs a home. Kate needs help. An uneasy deal is struck that could make Ford more than Kate's handyman. but Kate doesn't know what she wants. She's discovering some disturbing truths about her husband, her daughter, and most of all, herself. And suddenly, after it safe for so long, Kate is a woman with a daring plana plan that will threaten her comfortable world, test her dreams and just might heal her broken heart."Moments of sheer human verisimilitude...Well-drawn characters and a plot that snares almost from the first page, make the book hard to set down." Booklist
Christmas EveKate Hart's husband of twenty-five years has just walked out on her and an old station wagon has broken don in the rain in front of her elegant California home. The driver is a handsome young Iowa farmer. His family needs a home. Kate needs help. An uneasy deal is struck that could make Ford more than Kate's handyman. but Kate doesn't know what she wants. She's discovering some disturbing truths about her husband, her daughter, and most of all, herself. And suddenly, after it safe for so long, Kate is a woman with a daring plana plan that will threaten her comfortable world, test her dreams and just might heal her broken heart."Moments of sheer human verisimilitude...Well-drawn characters and a plot that snares almost from the first page, make the book hard to set down." Booklist