In the middle of a heartbeat he fell hopelessly in love with her. . . .

Scotty Hammond had waited so long to meet his elusive new neighbor, he wasn't about to start off on the wrong note with the beautiful music teacher! Overwhelmed by his dazzling dark eyes and drop-dead smile, Augusta Miller quickly pegged him as a big, hunky flirt-high on ego, low on gray matter. But she'd have to leave town in order to avoid him, and she'd just settled in! Could the single dad next door whose touch made her sizzle and yearn be the soul mate with whom she'd play life's duet?

In a tender, funny, and revealing love story, Mary Kay McComas entangles a pair of kindred spirits who have much to teach each other about the lessons of the heart. She instructed her students that practice makes perfect, but could this brash miracle worker persuade her that everything she truly wished for was finally within reach?