Jake Smith isn't especially handsome. He isn't even as buff as those hotties on the covers of romance novels. But he understands the power of love.

Until his life is torn apart by losing it.

When Jake's marriage inexplicably ends, he's as devastated as a man can get. After all, Andy was the love of his life, and he doubts he'll ever find another woman like her.

Until he does.

But this relationship soon ends as well, leaving Jake on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Gradually rebuilding his life, he buys an old farmhouse not far from Nags Head, North Carolina, and sets about remodeling it. Just as he wonders if he'll ever find love again, he meets the woman not of his dreams-and he's hooked like a fish from an Outer Banks pier.

But even his new love-as great as she is-may not be able to force the never-ending heartbreak of losing Andy from his soul, or his guilt that he was somehow responsible for losing her. When this becomes clear, he must decide if he should simply exist alone for the rest of his days, or if he should simply not exist at all.

Delving into the heart of a man who believes in the power of true love, Love, Jake shares how it feels to have loved completely, even to the point of being afraid to love again.