<I>My darling Michael, I know this letter will come as a shock to you….</i><P>On the anniversary of his beloved wife's death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter Hannah had written him.<P>In it she reminds him of her love and makes one final request. An <I>impossible</i> request—<I>I want you to marry again.</i> She tells him he shouldn't spend the years he has left grieving her. And to that end she's chosen three women she asks him to consider.<P>First on Hannah's list is her cousin, Winter Adams, a trained chef who owns a café on Seattle's Blossom Street. The second is Leanne Lancaster, Hannah's oncology nurse. Michael knows them both. But the third name is one he's not familiar with—Macy Roth.<P>Each of these three women has her own heartache, her own private grief. More than a year earlier, Winter broke off her relationship with another chef. Leanne is divorced from a man who defrauded the hospital for which she works. And Macy lacks family of her own, the family she craves, but she's a rescuer of strays, human <I>and</i> animal. Macy is energetic, artistic, eccentric—and couldn't be more different from Michael.<P>During the months that follow, he spends time with Winter, Leanne and Macy, learning more about each of them…and about himself. Learning what Hannah already knew. He's a man who needs the completeness only love can offer. And Hannah's list leads him to the woman who can help him find it.