In Florida, wealthy sixty-five years old Steven Armstrong underwent knee replacement surgery and subsequent therapy. He soon falls in love with his physical therapist thirty-three years old Charlene "Charlie" Hendricks, who raises a young teen Tara by herself. He asks his eldest son Matthew for advice, Matthew then tells his two siblings, Hollywood actor Gary and art show sponsor Trish about their father’s plans. These are 3 children who even in their adult life need their father to keep them solvent, so they don’t really like the idea of him marrying again.

Charlie is surprised when Steven asks her to marry him and is not sure at first but then realizing marrying him would help her daughter, Charlie accepts. However, someone is unhappy with her marrying the self made millionaire and tries to kill Charlie, but they fail. A second attempt ends tragically with Steven dead and the police suspecting the new rich widow. She is unable to sit idly by while suspecting one of her step children is trying to kill her, so she starts a little bit of investigating herself. Charlie then has the help of a detective with questionable methods of investigating as she heads to trial.

I found this story easy to read, but it was not a really exciting story, it just went along. ( )