Love's Unexpected Embrace

Susan Drake works as an educator with a local school district.  A single divorced mother of two boys after a failed marriage of ten years.  Romance is one of the farthest things from her mind after surviving a philandering and emotionally abusive husband. Living alone in the large city with her sons, she unexpectedly finds love again within the arms of someone from her past.            Joseph Bennett left home over ten years ago but now has returned home after a tour of duty in the military.  At a community function welcoming home their returning soldiers, Joseph meets and becomes reacquainted with a former high school sweetheart.  Several years has passed since he last saw her, but to him Susan is still as beautiful as ever.
They are drawn to each other.  Memories of young love not quite forgotten resurface.  Susan and Joseph explore the possibility that they were truly meant to be together. She feels that their passion for one another is an all-consuming connection, as it grows.  They have all but moved in together.  But there is trouble on the horizon for the lovers as unexpected and untimely events in their relationship are revealed.  Will the love they share be enough or does fate have other plans for them.