A Summer All Her Own

Goal-oriented Anna Sandoval travels from her home in Washington, D.C., to Crete and plunges from the predictable into the uncertain. It's been a year since her talk-show host husband, Paul, died, and the 45-year-old widow hopes a sunlit villa on the shore of the Aegean will be where she can put an end to her mourning and move on with her life. Things, obviously, aren't as simple as she'd have hoped; between a sultry friendship with the ruggedly handsome widower staying in another villa and a love affair with a dashing Greek architect, Anna feels more lost than ever. But it is an old love—painting—that allows her to find a "state of grace." Readers looking for an easily digestible inspirational story will find it here. (Sept.)