What Mends the Heart

Can they take down their walls?Tailor and widower Stephen Millory is relieved to be leaving Green Pond -- even if only while Cowbird Creek's tailor, Mr. Sherman, is out of town. Without Mary, Green Pond holds little besides painful memories. Stephen expects to live in the rooms above Sherman's shop. But when he arrives in Cowbird Creek, two surprises await him. Sherman has a sewing machine, which fascinates Stephen as nothing has since Mary's passing. And Sherman is so small a man that Stephen cannot possibly fit in the man's custom-made bed. He will have to seek a room at Rebecca Wheeler's boarding house.Rebecca Wheeler enjoys taking care of people, and her boarders are amiable enough. She has no dreams of marriage, for reasons she has avoided discussing even with friends. But she and Stephen are immediately drawn to each other, and the attraction only grows. Stephen is overcome with guilt at the idea of even contemplating a relationship with any woman but Mary. And Rebecca is well aware that Stephen is still weighed down by grief.Can they find their way through the obstacles surrounding each of them, before Stephen's time in Cowbird Creek comes to an end?