Hannah's List

Dr. Michael Everett opens a letter from his late wife Hannah on the anniversary of her death. She writes of her love for him, then makes a request he thinks impossible: that he marry again rather than spend his remaining years in mourning.

Hannah has named three women for him to consider. Winter Adams is her cousin, a trained chef who runs a cafe on Seattle's Blossom Street. Leanne Lancaster was Hannah's oncology nurse, and Michael already knows her. The third name, Macy Roth, means nothing to him.

Each woman carries a private sorrow. Winter ended a relationship with another chef more than a year ago. Leanne is divorced from a man who defrauded the hospital where she works. Macy has no family and wants one badly, and she takes in strays, both people and animals. She is energetic, artistic and eccentric, which makes her very unlike Michael.

Over the following months he spends time with all three and learns about them and about himself. This is a contemporary romance with a gentle, emotional tone, built around grief and the question of whether a widower can open himself to love again.