title: The Power of Apology: Healing Steps to Transform All Your Relationships
author:  Beverly Engel 
description: "Fresh and useful . . . excellent practical advice . . . thoroughand lucid . . . will be welcomed by many who have struggled to askforgiveness and to forgive."<br />Publishers Weekly
zlib_text: F rom long- lost f riends...
  T o new f ou nd f amily?
  Georgia and Wil were best friends until he married and disappeared
  from her life. Now he’s back, asking Georgia to forget the past and
  help him secure his future—the daughter he never knew he had!
  Georgia’s heart goes out to new dad Wil, but there’s an uncharted
  chemistry fizzing between them and she must protect her heart. Can
  they confront their unspoken attraction and finally become a family?
  
  “I’m sorry it’s been so long, Georgie, I really am,”
  he said.
  She attempted to tease, but her words fell flat. “ You know whose
  fault that is.”
  “ Mine. I know. And I regret it.”  He paused.
  “ Yet you’re here now.”  She made no move toward him. No kiss on
  the cheek or hug in welcome—not that their friendship had ever
  been the kind that involved physical contact beyond the socially
  polite. There had always been an unspoken “ no touching”  barrier
  between them.
  Back in the day, when Wil had smiled, there had been a hint of a
  dimple in his left