Evergreen — Emily Mims

Tennessee bluegrass player Bradley Barstow holds not just the key to the cure for ukulele-player Leilani Mahuiki's sick daughter, but to Leilani's heart. TWO NOTES, DISCORDANT Thirty-year-old musician Leilani Mahuiki is in Tennessee to find Joe Barstow, the birth father whose bone marrow might save her daughter's life. She finds Bradley, too, Joe's adopted son. Against all odds, she and Bradley make wonderful music together, she on the ukulele, he on the banjo. And Bradley is everything else she's ever wanted in a man. Bradley wants her, too. But is that enough? He needs a family of his own. Having grown up an outsider, he's always dreamt of something simple and old-fashioned. No entanglements. No complications. Just mom, dad, and the kids. Not something Leilani can ever offer. She already has the very complications and entanglements that he so desperately wants to avoid, and that are not going away any time soon. And yet, as he and Leilani pull out all the stops to save her daughter's life, he knows Leilani is the only woman for him. The most beautiful music in the world can sometimes happen when disharmony resolves -- and a lonely Tennessee winter can become a tropical paradise.