Magnolia Sky — Susan Crandall

The moment that Luke Boudreau had been both dreading and anticipating for the past five months had come. In all that time, he'd debated long and hard about what he would say, yet had found no words to convey his regret. He came to Mississippi as a man, not a soldier. Still he felt as unprepared as if he'd come straight from the battlefield to speak to the mother of Calvin Abbott, the man who shouldn't have died.

The fact that his best army buddy had a wife ricocheted wildly in Luke's brain. Never in their entire association had Calvin given the slightest indication he was married. And his behavior certainly never reflected it. Luke denied himself the long hard look at Analise Abbott that he burned to take. Looking into those lovely green eyes might just prove to be too dangerous...