Robin Masterson's ten-year-old son, Jeff, wanted to make friends with the dog next door. The problem was that Blackie belonged to Cole Camden -- the unfriendliest man the neighborhood. Cole hadn't always been so solitary, so aloof. The deaths of his wife and son had embittered him, and that was something Robin could understand. Her own husband had died when Jeff was just a baby. Now, for the first time in ten years, Robin found herself responding to a man. But was Cole interested in her - or in replacing his lost family?