While on a service trip to Africa, K becomes confused when she meets Kender, known to all the other volunteers as Dr. Grandchester, a beautiful but enigmatic man. K feels a strong connection with Kender and soon learns that their existence is at odds for he is not what she expected him to be.
Despite their enormous differences, K and Kender fall deeply in love with each other. Kender is faced with a difficult struggle: should he be with K and cave in to short-lived, pure love and joy followed by tremendous grief, or should he stay away and avoid those sentencing feelings altogether?
Sandy Tague graduated from UCR with a psychology degree. She chose motherhood as her career path and began writing. Tague and her husband, Curt, have two sons. This is her debut novel.