One moment Carrie Bradford was walking along the street with her beloved husband, Ben, and their daughter. The next, her body lay shattered on the pavement, and her soul was being drawn toward a bright, blessed light. But Carrie couldn't bear to leave Ben and little Jennie - not yet. There had to be a way to go back...
Now a lonely widower, Ben had no desire to remarry. Nobody could ever take Carries place. Still, there was something familiar about his new neighbor, Marina Devereaux, something that captivated him. Marina didn't look like Carrie, but the expression in her eyes haunted Ben - as did her maternal tenderness toward his motherless child. And Marina knew things about Ben that she couldn't possibly know - unless...
Anne Marie Winston is a Pennsylvania native and former teacher. She began reading romances a long, long time ago and considers getting paid to write them the ultimate in occupations. Always a book lover, Anne Marie didn't begin writing her own romance until 1989, when she was at home with two babies, too many diapers and too much time to consider insane, risky career moves. She sold her first book in 1991 and to date has published more than thirty novels of romance fiction.