Title: New Love on the Lake
Author: Cara Joy
Date: 2018
Quote: "She was supposed to come for Christmas and Thanksgiving and large family gatherings. Instead, it was likely she and her Caleb would be making South Clarion home for a long while. Who expects to be a widow at thirty-five?"
In our crowded and polluted world, more people are dying of cancer at earlier ages than used to be accepted as normal. Hannah's husband Calvin, father of Caleb, has just died. Hannah moves back to her parents' home, breaking a US taboo for a successful adult, as her parents are still active and healthy. Hannah is American but her mother came from Ghana. Hannah is a doctor, like her father, and can join his practice. When she finds herself attracted to a colleague in her parents' town, however, she worries about breaking a Ghanaian taboo. Widows aren't supposed to be interested in remarriage for one full year after losing their spouses. Will her mother give a full blessing on the marriage if Hannah wants to remarry less than a year after losing Calvin?
There's not much suspense in this story. It's a sweet wholesome romance that might, if the children found it, give them a little empathy for adults but not lead them to think about things they're not old enough to understand.
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