A Love That Will Never Be

Misty Lawrence cannot forget her dead first love, Zach Sterling. Carter Flanagan has loved her for half his life and hoped to take Zach's place in her heart, but in the eighth year of their marriage, a shattered bowl Zach once bought drives Misty to throw him out of the kitchen. Carter finally understands he can never win against a ghost, so he prepares a divorce agreement and vows to give their marriage eight more chances — one for each year — if Misty will only put him before Zach once.

Yet Misty dismisses his threat, certain his love is too deep to let her go, and Carter must weigh the tangled fortunes of the Flanagan Group and the Lawrence Group before any separation. When a call from Zeke sends her racing to the airport on the night of a charity cocktail party, Carter stands alone at the party's edge, staring at a photo of his wife with another man.

Eight years, eight chances — and Misty has just spent one.