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HAD TO BE YOU is
a contemporary new adult romance set in a small Massachusetts beach
town in the days leading up to a summer wedding. At its heart, this
is a story about first love, but as it also carries over into
post-college years, spanning that decade and touching upon more
mature themes. It does not shy away from erotic description, but only
as it reflects and reinforces the deep connection and passion
defining the relationship.
When Rory Finn first left behind the familiarity of her quiet, picturesque hometown to pursue a professional career in the city after college, her intention was to focus on the future—until a jarring bit of unwelcome news forces her to face the past. What if her first love could actually still be the true love of her life? There’s just one little problem with the timing of this revelation. He is about to marry someone else.
As she embarks upon an impulsive, desperate bid to win him back, her mission turns into an unexpected and emotional journey of rediscovery. With both humor and heartbreak, the story itself transitions from past to present, exploring a small history of love from its tentative beginnings to what may just turned out to be its final bittersweet end.
When Rory Finn first left behind the familiarity of her quiet, picturesque hometown to pursue a professional career in the city after college, her intention was to focus on the future—until a jarring bit of unwelcome news forces her to face the past. What if her first love could actually still be the true love of her life? There’s just one little problem with the timing of this revelation. He is about to marry someone else.
As she embarks upon an impulsive, desperate bid to win him back, her mission turns into an unexpected and emotional journey of rediscovery. With both humor and heartbreak, the story itself transitions from past to present, exploring a small history of love from its tentative beginnings to what may just turned out to be its final bittersweet end.
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Jill
clicked off the phone and exhaled loudly, shaking her head.
“What
was that all about?” Trevor came back into the room and dropped
into the chair across from her. He had a pint of ice cream in his
hand. “Is she upset because Matt is marrying Amanda? Doesn’t she
like her?”
“No,
it’s not that, really,” Jill replied, gazing out the window.
A smudge of moonlight was barely visible in the night time sky
above the buildings across the street. “Rory doesn’t even know
Amanda. They’ve never met. She’s just upset Matt is getting
married, period. There’s a long history there, you know. Once upon
a time... well, they were pretty close. They were best friends, each
other’s first loves, you name it.”
Trevor
always tried to play it off like he was barely interested in gossip,
above it all even, but when they were alone he definitely took a sort
of conspiratorial delight in getting the scoop on Jill’s small
hometown crowd. He himself had never experienced just how tight
some childhood ties could bind.
“I
guess I recall you telling me that.” Swallowing a mouthful of ice
cream, he frowned. “So, is she just jealous he found someone else?
Or does she still have feelings for him?”
“Who
knows?” Jill replied with another yawn, propping her elbow on the
back of the couch to rest her head in her hand. “Rory Finn is a
very complicated girl. Believe me, she makes me look easy.”
“Maybe
we shouldn’t talk about how easy you look, love,” he murmured as
he dug his spoon in, trying to hide a grin, “when you’re sitting
there all knocked up.”
“Give
me that ice cream and I just might forget you said that.”
About
the Author
A
lifelong New Englander, I divide my time between the North Shore and
Cape Cod. My favorite things are beaches, boats, books, bars, the
Boston Red Sox and boys, but not necessarily in that order.
Consequently, you’ll probably find that these are the things I
write about, too.
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