Shades of Light [first edition]

Widowed Gwen Sullivan has never worked outside the home and isn't sure she's ready to. But faced with an empty house when her daughter leaves for college, she reluctantly takes a job for an interior designer. The characters who hang around the criminal defense attorney's office upstairs are creepy, her boss is unpleasant, her tasks are menial-but eventually Gwen gains enough confidence in her instincts to take on a design client of her own. And helping Oliver Black transform a derelict downtown building into a safe haven for street kids does more for her than she could have imagined. . . .