Single mother Ashley Baxter struggles to adjust to her new job at a nursing home, caring for Alzheimer's patients. Ashley's troubled past has made her quite reserved, but will firefighter Landon Blake, who has loved her since youth, help Ashley break down personal barriers and open her heart to love? o prove she can survive on her own, until the tragedy of September 11 changes her life forever.

Luke Baxter has walked away from everything that mattered most to him: his faith, his family, and Reagan, his only love. Devastated by the events of September 11, 2001, Luke decides that life is random, faith a fraud, and God a fantasy. A baby is about to be born, but with Reagan a thousand miles away in New York City, Luke has no idea he₂s the father. Now, though, someone in his family learns the truth. But she has a secret of her own, one that...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, two men meet in a smoky stairwell of the World Trade Center. One is Eric Michaels, a driven financial manager from Los Angeles who has been busy climbing the corporate ladder, often at the expense of his wife and young son. The other is Jake Bryan, a New York City fireman devoted to his wife and daughter. In the midst of the crisis, Eric falls on the stairs and Jake stops to help him up. The two men freeze momentarily,...

Three years after the terrorist attacks on New York City, widow Jamie Bryan pours her life into volunteer work, and meets two very different men who cause her to reevaluate her grief.

"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--