The Right Thing [Hardcover]

After Sara Gilmore curls up next to her husband, David, following a rare afternoon tryst, he announces he is leaving her after twenty years of marriage. Adding fuel to the fire, he claims to have singlehandedly worked out the details of their divorce. Discouraged and grieving, Sara travels from Houston to her sister's home in Denver, where she encounters an instant spark with Jake Spencer. And though she is free to foster a new romance with Jake, things grow complicated when David is diagnosed with a devastating disease. Despite her animosity toward him, Sara unearths great compassion for David when she learns there will be only be strangers to care for him through the illness. Against the wishes of her teenage son, Trevor, and regardless of the fact that she will lose Jake, she takes David in and sees that he is given the best possible care. Aspiring only for a father-son relationship to ensue, turmoil commences. When things begin to unravel, Sara learns that hope and forgiveness have a way of transforming people and love lives on regardless of the circumstance.