This Bittersweet Love

In the space of one nippy November afternoon she'd lost her coveted spinning wheel-- utterly outbid at auction--and now she was losing her heart-- utterly undone by a stranger's charm. Sara Gilman bristled at the danger. Growing up as an army brat, she had a long history of short stays in too many homes. She'd given up a promising career to come to Vermont. She meant to dig in her heels. To settle. To stay. But Jason Marsh--professional restorer of old homes-- was clearly a nomad... a gypsy... an unsettling sort of man. What would she do once he had taken her into his arms, kissed her spun dreams of love and threads of passion that would bind her to him heart and soul-- wherever he chose to go? What would she do once he had made her heart his home?

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.