First Comes the Night — Belinda Missen

What if your greatest joy became your greatest tragedy? Katharine Patterson is brash, bold, and quite happy with her life exactly as it is, thank you very much. She has a paying job, family, friends, and a boyfriend who can't decide what he wants. Enter Christopher Watts. Life as he knew it changed in the blink of an eye when he was widowed. Still coming to grips with the loss of his wife, and care of his newborn son, he's introduced to Katharine through mutual friends. An unconventional friendship begins and, when Christopher offers Katharine a life-changing opportunity, she jumps at it. Forced into each other's lives, can Katharine help him cope with his grief, or will Christopher push her away, determined to be alone?