Includes reading group guide, author interview - p. 435.

"A novel" - cover.

Haleys whirlwind romance and almost three-year marriage to Sam, an army medic, ends tragically when hes killed in Afghanistan. Her attempts to create a new life for herself are ambushed when she arrives home one evening-and finds her husband waiting for her. Did the military make an unimaginable mistake when they told her Sam was killed? After a twelve-year estrangement, Stephen hopes to make things right with his twin brother--only to discover Sam died without revealing Stephen's existence to Haley. As Haley and Stephen struggle to navigate their fragile relation­ship, they are inexorably drawn to each other.