She disappeared without a trace... love found him when he needed it most. Dr. Jessee Bradford has the perfect life: a beautiful wife, a daughter he adores, a home above the Santa Barbara coast. Then he comes home one ordinary afternoon to find them both gone—no struggle, no ransom note, nothing but silence and an empty crib. For years, Jessee doesn't know if his family was stolen from him or if his wife simply chose to disappear. The not-knowing nearly destroys him. He rebuilds his life on his grandparents' Iowa farm, throws himself into his veterinary practice, and tells himself he's moved on. Then he meets Laura Driscoll: a strong, warm-hearted widow who never expected to fall in love again either. What starts as friendship becomes something neither of them can deny—until the past she buried and the past he never solved collide in ways that threaten everything they've built together. Some secrets stay hidden for years. Love isn't always one of them. But sometimes it takes losing everything twice to know exactly what—and who—is worth fighting for.

She disappeared without a trace... love found him when he needed it most. Dr. Jessee Bradford has the perfect life: a beautiful wife, a daughter he adores, a home above the Santa Barbara coast. Then he comes home one ordinary afternoon to find them both gone—no struggle, no ransom note, nothing but silence and an empty crib. For years, Jessee doesn't know if his family was stolen from him or if his wife simply chose to disappear. The not-knowing nearly destroys him. He rebuilds his life on his grandparents' Iowa farm, throws himself into his veterinary practice, and tells himself he's moved on. Then he meets Laura Driscoll: a strong, warm-hearted widow who never expected to fall in love again either. What starts as friendship becomes something neither of them can deny—until the past she buried and the past he never solved collide in ways that threaten everything they've built together. Some secrets stay hidden for years. Love isn't always one of them. But sometimes it takes losing everything twice to know exactly what—and who—is worth fighting for.

She disappeared without a trace... love found him when he needed it most. Dr. Jessee Bradford has the perfect life: a beautiful wife, a daughter he adores, a home above the Santa Barbara coast. Then he comes home one ordinary afternoon to find them both gone—no struggle, no ransom note, nothing but silence and an empty crib. For years, Jessee doesn't know if his family was stolen from him or if his wife simply chose to disappear. The not-knowing nearly destroys him. He rebuilds his life on his grandparents' Iowa farm, throws himself into his veterinary practice, and tells himself he's moved on. Then he meets Laura Driscoll: a strong, warm-hearted widow who never expected to fall in love again either. What starts as friendship becomes something neither of them can deny—until the past she buried and the past he never solved collide in ways that threaten everything they've built together. Some secrets stay hidden for years. Love isn't always one of them. But sometimes it takes losing everything twice to know exactly what—and who—is worth fighting for.