Magic Moments

"'T is the season to be jolly!"

Not quite.

Six weeks after her mother's unexpected death, Diana Cameron-Hale is still learning how to breathe through her grief. The 53-year-old Jamaican widow is keeping busy, with only four days left to her daughter Rayna's Christmas Day wedding. She needs-and welcomes-the distraction, since it keeps her from falling apart. What she doesn't need is a blast from her past blowing in to stir up memories, needs, and desires that she thought she had extinguished over three decades earlier.

Fate-in the form of Rayna Hale-reconnects respected college professor and lifelong bachelor, Dr. Jackson Blake, with Diana, the woman he had never stopped loving. When unforeseen circumstances place him in her home for Rayna's Christmas wedding, Jackson must reevaluate his decision to stay away completely from the woman who had broken his heart decades before. But he is no longer the boy he had been when she had parted ways with him. Now in his mid-fifties, he is secure in his career, confident in his worth, and finally ready to reclaim his woman.

Will this reunion bring them both the joy that life has stolen from them? Or will the season pass and leave them still mired in longing and regret?