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How do you bounce back from a failed romance, a brief love affair with your very best friend, that ended suddenly, without warnings or goodbyes, leaving you to realize it really couldn’t have been love after all, – for both of you.

Makiya (Ki) is living that dilemma every day since she graduated high school, at eighteen, to see the love of her life, Hunter, – her truest friend since childhood – love her and then leave her, the night before he left suddenly for college, never to be heard from again.

Five years later Ki is still processing the hurt, not even remotely recovered, now parenting a young daughter amidst a smoldering mistrust of men in general, Hunter in particular, and herself for her weakness, alone and unsure of her ongoing ability to relate romantically at all.

What would it take to allow someone back into her life – and what if that someone was Hunter himself – older, grown up now, more self aware, and desperate to bring a new level of trust to a rekindled relationship – a second-chance for love and all that was lost those years ago.

Would you trust him?

Based in Sunrise, a coastal Southern Californian town, the pages in this sweet and contemporary romance fly by as you’re reading. This book is perfect for a beach or a sunny afternoon, and so hard to put down once you meet these characters, enter their world, and hope the very best for them is just around the corner…

No spoilers here, let me just say, “for the love of biscuits and gravy” – what would a contemporary romance be without a happy ending?

A great big thank you to author for an advance review copy of this lovely book, which will be published on June 30, 2021, in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts presented are my own.