The mourners' bench : a novel

"A thirty-year-old dollmaker's quiet existence on a North Carolina island is interrupted by a visit from her late sister's husband, a man dying of cancer with whom she has shared a furtive, unspoken love."
"The mourners' bench is an original, poignant, and affecting love story about memory, perspective, temptation, and forgiveness. Susan Dodd creates characters who will linger in the reader's mind long after the tale has reached its inevitable end. It's the story of two estranged relatives attempting to mend the passing of time apart, upon the wishes of one dying man, Wim - the husband of Leandra's sister. As he re-enters her life, a charming romance evokes filled with heartbreak, betrayal and love."@en
"While helping her pregnant sister, a woman falls in love with the husband. Years later the wife dies and the husband, a New England professor joins her, their love strong as ever. But it is doomed, he has a brain tumor and will die."
"While helping her pregnant sister, a woman falls in love with the husband. Years later the wife dies and the husband, a New England professor joins her, their love strong as ever. But it is doomed, he has a brain tumor and will die."@en