As a young single mother, Melody strove to trust again after a series of heartbreaks. But when she met Mike, everything changed. Through twenty-three years of marriage, Melody and Mike loved and supported one another. Mike's sudden death at age fifty was a devastating loss. Melody struggles, as all bereaved spouses do, to make sense of a world that seems at the same time frightfully wide-open and excruciatingly constricting. She's lost her best friend, partner, and lover. She knows such a love comes only once in a lifetime. How can Melody find the strength to carry on and rebuild?