What makes a family?

Teacher Laurel Tanner couldn't stop hearing her ex-husband's words. And then she met Cort Morente. The injured, brooding detectivewas the hottest hunk in her new hometown. And when Laurel and Cort worked together tohelp Tommy, a troubled boy at school, they didthe impossible--they began to fall in love! But her husband's hateful words still haunted her.Laurel could never tell Cort the secret she'd keptburied deep inside. She was convinced it was thereal reason her husband had left. The real reasonshe could never be the woman Cort needed. Even though his eyes and his lips were telling herotherwise...