title: Love and Other Surprises
author: Creighton, Kathleen
description: LIKE A CHANGING TIDE
  
  Widowed after a twenty-year, loveless marriage, Toby Thomas found herself back in college, working as a sorority housemother. What frightened her wasn't the challenge of a new life but the electric intensity of the man who blew into it one day like a powerful gale.
  
  Seaman Stony Brand's wind-scoured cheekbones and pugnacious jaw hid a tender, passionate side that stirred Toby's desires, yet romance seemed a tempestuous venture. He'd made it clear that he wanted her, but she was stalling, clinging to her well-ordered life like a life preserver until she figured out whether this man would sweep her away on a balmy breeze ... or leave her shipwrecked on a lonely isle.