Accustomed to paying--and getting--her own way, wealthy widow Anne Benefield is shocked when an unyielding judge won't let her buy her way out of a sheaf of parking tickets...and sentences her to six months of community service. What's more, she has to work at a halfway house for abused children run by her own pet charity, "Angels, Inc." — And th... more »at's only the beginning. Anne has a boss-dedicated, tough-minded social worker Kurt Bonner--who's totally unimpressed by her social credentials. Cool and aloof despite a growing attraction to him, Anne simply "puts in her time"...until an abandoned little girl touches her heart. Could it be that a new Anne is emerging--a woman ready to open her heart twice over...for the very first time?
Leaving a career with the U.S. Forest Service in 1986, Clara Wimberly decided to pursue a lifetime dream of becoming a published writer. She is the mother of three grown children and grandmother to two little girls. She loves American history and her hobbies include cooking, counted cross stitch, herb gardening, traveling, collecting old teapots, and, of course, reading.