Is he for real? Not-quite-retired doctor and longtime widow Lynne Daniels was not looking for a new gentleman friend. But when the attractive and charming "silver fox" Will Hamilton shows up at her art opening, raves about her work, and asks her to dinner, she starts to think, Hmm, maybe? The more she and Will get to know each other, the deeper she feels herself falling for him. He's just perfect-sophisticated without being snobby, financially comfortable, and an amazing listener. He's even a great pickleball player. Lynne's friend and fellow soup-group member Alicia signs them up to play as a team in Orcas Island's big midsummer benefit pickleball tournament. Everything is going swimmingly when suddenly one crisis after another crops up: Lynne's adult son crashes his personal life and moves back home; the medical clinic loses a key staff member so everyone has to take on far more patients; the art gallery owner lines up an impossible number of commissions for Lynne. She's barely navigating all that when Will gets called away to deal with a crisis of his own-in Arizona. And he has no idea when he'll be able to return to the island. Is the whole world conspiring to complicate Lynne's life-and her romance?

Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and spent her early years on a back-to-the-land commune in northern California. A childhood without television gave her a great love of the written word. At seven, she wrote her first book, an illustrated adventure starring her cat Cleo. Sadly, that story is out of print, but her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Interzone, Fantasy, Black Static, Tor.com, the Proceedings of the 2002 International Oral History Association Congress, and many anthologies, including the Australian Shadows Award-winning Grants Pass, and The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk. Books include contemporary fantasies The Queen and The Tower and A Sword in The Sun, the first two books in The Nightcraft Quartet; hippie horror novel Eel River; story collection Eastlick and Other Stories; personal essay collection I Was a Trophy Wife; Orcas Intrigue, Orcas Intruder, Orcas Investigation, and Orcas Illusion, the first four books in the cozy mystery series The Chameleon Chronicles, in collaboration with Karen G. Berry under the pen name Laura Gayle; and Our Lady of the Islands, co-written with the late Jay Lake. Our Lady received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014, and was a finalist for the Endeavour Award. Forthcoming books include Nightcraft books three and four; a sequel to Our Lady; and another Orcas mystery. Edited books include the anthologies Witches, Stitches & Bitches and Black-Eyed Peas on New Year's Day: An Anthology of Hope, and the essay collection The Usual Path to Publication. Shannon is a longtime yoga practitioner, has no tattoos (but she did recently get a television), and lives on lovely, remote Orcas Island, Washington, with her husband, author and illustrator Mark Ferrari. Visit her at www.shannonpage.net.