Love is a Many Splendored Thing — Nancy Fraser

At a friend's wedding, Marnie Shelton encounters Air Force Major Edward Louden, a man she originally met three years earlier when he'd come to her door to tell her that her husband had been killed while serving in Korea. Since that fateful day, Marnie has turned her life around by attending college and earning a business degree all while caring for her two young children. The last thing on her busy agenda is to become involved with a man, especially one in the military.

Ed has other ideas. Surely this beautiful, confident woman can't be the same young girl he'd met just three years earlier. Despite Marnie's refusal to see him again, the persistent Major won't take no for an answer and sets out to woo and win both mother and children