The lonely man

The Lonely Man is Faith Baldwin at her best - wise, sympathetic, with an eye for drama and an ear for sparkling and wityy dialogue. After the death of his young wife, Dr. Jonathan Condit returns to the family home in Seascape, where his attractive, unmarried sister, Sophie, helps run his medical practice and both their lives. Dedicated, introspective, and afraid to be vunerable, Condit is swept up in his patients' personal tragedies. Only beautiful Frances Lawson, a rich and openly seductive divorcee, dares challenge the doctor's defenses and offer him a path out of lonliness. --- from book's back cover