I'm not sure how the author was able to pack so much emotion into such a short story but she certainly did. The main characters, each broken in their own way are looking for solace, a place to feel whole again, but neither imagined that maybe it isn't a place but a person they need to accomplish that. They're not strangers but they certainly aren't friends which makes their connection all that much more interesting and intense. The pressures of family and friends, and their situations in life, threaten to overwhelm each of them and so they've begun to shrink into themselves. I loved how through time and simply being together each of them found what they needed to move forward. And the intensity of their attraction and feelings was fantastic. Normally, novellas leave me wanting for something...that certain feeling of connectedness that one gets from spending a long time with characters in a full-length novel, but I did not have this feeling here. This book, though short, still had all the emotion and character development I needed to feel satisfied. This book is currently free...please, go read it!