First Love Again
Some loves deserve a second chance… Coming back to Gulliver Island after a ten-year absence to take care of his father should have been simple. Emmett Deal would fix and sell the family home, and return to Cincinnati with his ailing father in tow. Yet something compels him to stay a little longer. The beautiful, bright eyes of Jaime Brown.Ten years ago, traumatic events changed the course of Jaime's life forever, catching her in a small-town life she can't escape. Emmett's return stirs up the memories she wanted to ignore…and dreams she had forgotten. Now she finds herself with a rare opportunity—a second chance. Only this time, it's not just for love…
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Some loves deserve a second chance...
Coming back to Gulliver Island after a ten-year absence to take care of his father should have been simple. Emmett Deal would fix and sell the family home, and return to Cincinnati with his ailing father in tow. Yet something compels him to stay a little longer. The beautiful, bright eyes of Jaime Brown.
Ten years ago, traumatic events changed the course of Jaimeâs life forever, catching her in a small-town life she canât escape. Emmettâs return stirs up the memories she wanted to ignore...and dreams she had forgotten. Now she finds herself with a rare opportunityâa second chance. Only this time, itâs not just for love...
âThings could get really complicated really fast...â
Jaime handed Emmett the shovel. âThen we uncomplicate it. I think Iâve already proven Iâm a much better planner than actual renovator. Iâm turning in my shovel and hammer.â
He flicked the brim of her ball cap with his thumb and index finger. âThat will definitely speed things up.â
She batted her eyelashes at him. âAnd here I thought you wanted to take things slowly.â
âWell, there is twenty-first century slow and then there is 1920s slow.â A twinkle lit his blue eyes. There was still something he wasnât telling herâsomething she didnât knowâbut Jaime pushed that thought out of her head. There was time to figure all of it out.
And maybe, just this once, it would be okay if she didnât examine things so closely.
Maybe, it would be okay to just see where this took them. She leaned forward and brushed her lips across his.
âI definitely think twenty-first century slow is the way to go...â
I have a love affair with second-chance love stories. There is something about two people who are willing to take another swing at love after itâs kicked them in the teeth that just makes me root for them.
Jaime and Emmett have that kind of story. High school sweethearts, neither expected their romance to end with a class trip to Pennsylvania...and neither is quite ready for what it means when that spark of attraction ignites once more. I adore both of these characters, but Jaime holds a special place in my heart because of her willingness to look into the darkness and still see light.
Happy reading!
Kristina Knight
KRISTINA KNIGHT decided she wanted to be a writer, like her favorite soap opera heroine, Felicia Gallant, one cold day when she was home sick from school. She took a detour into radio and television journalism but never forgot her first love of romance novels, or her favorite character from her favorite soap. In 2012 she got The Call from an editor who wanted to buy her book. Kristina lives in Ohio with her handsome husband, incredibly cute daughter and two dogs.
For Kyle, because you find a way to make me laugh, you hold me when I need a good cry and youâre always ready to go on an adventure. I love you.
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âBUT IT ISNâT FINISHED.â
Jaime Brown pushed a lock of curly blond hair behind her ear, but it was so muggy on this May afternoon that the lock sprang right back to the side of her face to tickle the sensitive skin along her jaw.
âIsnât like your little party is tomorrow. Thereâs time.â The grizzled head of the renovation project scratched dirty hands over his scruffy chin.
Luther Thomas had sounded fatherly over the phone when sheâd hired him. Competent. He might be good at his job, but after five days on the island he and his âcrewâ had put a few holes in the room walls downstairs and that was it. Sheâd found them drinking at the tavern, fishing on the docks and sitting under the big maple trees in the parking lot, but as far as actual work went she hadnât seen much.
Plenty of time. No, there wasnât. The reunion might still be six weeks off, but there were two complete stories of the old school building to renovate. Having the ground floor demoâd was a huge step in the whole process.
âWeâre knocking down walls, rebuilding a staircase and replacing old windows. That isnât just slapping up a new coat of paint.â She pushed the long sleeves of her gray T-shirt up her arms, hoping for a little relief from the heat.
Damn the month of May, anyway. When sheâd left her cottage on Gulliverâs Island this morning it was a comfortable sixty-five degrees with a light breeze blowing in from the west. Perfect weather for lightweight-but-long-sleeved. But the crazy weather along this part of Ohioâs Lake Erie struck and the breeze changed to a full-on wind, bringing in muggy air that didnât usually hit until after Memorial Day.
