At thirty-one, widow Galen Granata was a veteran of such an unhappy marriage that she had never dared to long for what every woman dreamed of. Like a man to love…and children. So she''d built a wall around herself that no one had even tried to penetrate.Until Del Farentino. And then Galen found herself face-to-face with the enormously attractive widower—and his deaf little girl. Wendy might not be able to talk in the conventional way, but she—and her sexy single father—were speaking to Galen in a way that no one else ever had. Could she find the courage to accept everything they offered?