<b>One of her most beloved standalones, Fern Michaels’ <i>New York Times </i>and <i>USA Today </i>bestselling novel about recovery and second chances is now available in trade paperback for the first time.</b><br><br><b><i>#1 </i>New York Times<i> bestselling author Fern Michaels masterfully blends adventure, redemption, and rich emotion to explore all the ways that love can come to heal us…</i></b><br> <br>Atlanta homicide detective Patrick “Tick” Kelly turned his back on the world the day he lost his family to unimaginable tragedy. Isolating himself in a beach shack on Mango Key, Florida, he drowned his grief and trauma in drink. Now sober and a bestselling author, Tick would gladly stay a recluse forever if his brother didn’t keep trying to drag him back to the land of the living.<br> <br>After years of sacrificing her personal life in favor of her DEA job, Kate Rush resigned and moved back to her native Miami. But the unofficial as