Having just turned forty, Julia Monroe hopes this next decade goes much better than the last, in which she became a young widow raising two children on her own. With both her boys off to college, it's time for new beginnings, and she can finally focus on expanding her New Orleans-based cleaning business. It seems God has other plans: Samuel Reed, the Green Beret who broke her heart over twenty years ago has returned to town. He's the kind of distraction she never saw coming. After their first interaction, Julia plans to keep her distance, but her meddling best friend has other plans. Can Julia work up the courage to embrace the kind of new beginning she thought she'd never see again? -- adapted from back cover