Straight to the Heart — Bettye Griffin

Freshly single, forlorn, and facing forty, Monique Oliver is looking to start over, and jumps at the offer to run a bed and breakfast in her mother's hometown of Washington, North Carolina. To Monique's amazement, the moment she gets to town she becomes a man magnet, although the one who really grabs her interest, handsome construction foreman Russell "Mac" McDonald, seems to steer clear of her. Little does she realize that Mac is

far from oblivious - he just assumes that Monique already gets more than her share of attention. But when circumstances throw them together, he'll discover that the woman he thought he should forget is the one he wants to keep in his life forever....