Just Us

Are death and a 48-year separation enough to extinguish the flame of a first love?

Charlie spent decades believing Mark died at war. She grieved, moved on, built a life. And she never forgave her father for forcing an annulment of their young marriage or for the matter-of-fact letter that told her Mark was gone.

Then a man walks through a restaurant door, and her knees buckle.

Getting reacquainted means facing decades of misdirected grief and feelings buried deep long ago. But she can finally introduce him to their son.

He's hesitant to trust her. Understandably. But slowly a friendship is rekindled, and she learns of his health issue. She's not sure she's brave enough to lose him twice.

She cares for him after the surgery, falling in love with him all over again. But expecting him to return her love is asking too much after the hurt he's carried.

A freak San Antonio snowstorm will change everything.

Just Us is a sweet, closed-door romance about a first love interrupted by war, a father's cruelty, and forty-eight years of living separate lives — and the snowstorm that gave them one more chance. Book three in the Cheesecake, Margaritas & Candlelight series.