Send No Flowers by Sandra Brown

Alicia is a widow who's playing the role of both parents to her boys. She goes out to a friend's cabin for a family vacation but discovers that the weather has cut off the power to the cabin. With no flashlight she tries to restore the power when she encounters a man in the shadows, Pierce.

At first she's reluctant to let him help her but she has no choice. To protect herself & her boys she tells Pierce that she's married & her husband will join them at any moment but as the weather worsens, she's stuck sharing Pierce's cabin. Her boys love the idea of it & being boys, share the fact that NOBODY is coming to join them.  YIKES!  Alicia & her boys become attached to Pierce but even though Pierce loves her boys, he makes sure to keep his distance from her because of a secret that could potentially hurt her.

You would think that as romance novels go, it would be an all around happy story but it truly isn't.  It was so sad it had me crying! Maybe I'm just a sap but it's still a good read & you won't be dissappointed! 

I discovered today though that Send No Flowers is the sequel to Breakfast in Bed which I haven't yet read & am not sure I want to go backwards.  :(  It seems pretty interesting though so I might just read the beginning of this story. It can't hurt to get the full picture, right? lol