The Key — Debra White Smith

Debra White Smith masterfully combines the nostalgia of early love, with real issues women face-such as entrepreneurship and raising grandchildren. Set in the small, sleepy east Texas town of Jacksonville, this romance unfolds as forty-eight-year-old widow Brendy Lane falls in love all over again with her high school sweetheart, Zeke Blake. But will the grandchildren Brendy is mothering destroy her chances at happiness, with the man she's secretly loved for so long? How can Brendy choose between the children who need her and the veteran who only made it through Vietnam by dreaming of her.