widowers

"Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, wakes one morning to find himself injured, alone, and confined to a hospital bed in Spokane, Washington. Sixteen days earlier, reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan left everything he knew behind and set off on the cross-country journey of a lifetime. But a vicious roadside stabbing has interrupted Alan's trek and robbed him of his one source of solace: the ability to walk. Homeless and facing months of difficult recovery, Alan has nowhere to turn-- until a mysterious woman enters his life and invites him into her home."--P. [4] of cover.

After Nathan McCann rescues a baby boy from the woods the boy's grandmother comes forward to claim him and all Nate asks is that the grandmother brings the boy back some day to meet his rescuer, but fifteen years later Nate is a widower and the boy is brought to Nate an angry teenager with a criminal history and Nate is determined to change him with love and patience.

"A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront the inmate who, twenty years ago, held him hostage during a prison riot."--Provided by OCLC.

North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher, Sarah--but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an accident and danger is not far away. Includes SAT and ACT comprehension questions and sample writing prompts.

An English widower struggling with his recent loss attends a reunion of his Christian youth group at an allegedly haunted house and finds that his old friends are battling their own demons.

Isabel Fish-Wooten has spent most of her life on the run, until she meets Blue Calhoun, a physician who saves her life and opens her heart to new possibilities.

Widower police chief Jake Robbins and Kate Sanford, the widow of the man accused of murdering Jake's wife, reevaluate the past when the unearthing of a fifty-year-old time capsule reveals that someone predicted the tragedy.

A lonely professor travels to the nation's capital in order to escape his previous life and his grief over his mother's death, and, through the letters and journals of Mary Todd Lincoln, learns some unexpected truths about America and loss.

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, novelist Mike Noonan is still unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares about a summerhouse called Sara Laughs. Upon his return to the town with the summerhouse, he finds the town's inhabitants in the grip of a vindictive man. As Mike is drawn into the town's struggles, he is also drawn into the mystery of the summerhouse, and its escalating terrors.

Divorc?ee Theresa Osborne, on a vacation at the seaside, finds a love message in a bottle and becomes obsessed with learning the story behind the note.