Amazon.com description: Product Description: Reluctance...Two women, whose hearts and worlds have been torn apart by the loss of their partners, in drastically different ways. One to a brutal slaying, the other to cheating of the worst kind.

Joy and Esther are thrown together by chance—fate has brought them to live side by side, but the balance of their future together is brought into doubt when Marcia, Joy's ex, comes to visit and reveals something shocking. To add to the mix is Carrie, Esther's old friend from her schooldays, who can't help but interfere. She doesn't want to see her friend lonely, thinking Whitby is a poor substitute for her previous London home.

Can love dispel the reluctance that lives in both the hearts of Esther and Joy, and give their burgeoning romance a chance to take flight—or will circumstances plot against them?