Jo Marie Rose is the widow who owns the rose harbor inn. She fell in love with a friend Mark but he went to the Middle East to rescue his interpreter and he got shot and he's having a hard time getting out and she doesn't know if she's ever going to get out and it this point Neither do I but she decided to go on living she started dating again he's been gone nine months and she doesn't know if she's gonna be back. This book has is good because so far I can see that Debbie Macomber has really went through some problems in her life to write as she does.