Had To Be You
Release Date: 08/05/14
Swoon Romance
Summary from Goodreads:
After college, Rory Finn left behind the familiarity of her quiet, picturesque hometown to pursue a professional career in the city. With her sights firmly on the future, Rory pressed on in hopes of forgetting the past until a jarring bit of unwelcome news forces her to confront it.
Her first love, the one she'd tried so hard to forget, is about to marry someone else. That pang Rory feels isn't envy, it's not even regret. It's love. But Rory can't be that girl. She won't. But if she doesn't, she'll never know what could have been. She'll never have another chance to tell him how she feels.
As she embarks on an impulsive, desperate bid to win him back, her mission turns into an unexpected and emotional journey of rediscovery. HAD TO BE YOU explores a history of love from its tentative beginnings to what may just turn out to be its final bittersweet end, as Rory ignores her head and follows her heart.
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Excerpt from Had To Be You
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 methat.” Swallowing a mouthful of ice cream, hefrowned. “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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