Return To Me
3 total works
A workplace romance leads to a sweet second chance... Dean Foster needs Alice Jaye. Hiring her to manage all things administration and customer service at Foster's Garage is giving him back something he's been lacking for years: time. Time to focus on his business, time to be with his family. Time, even, to learn how to be something more than the town's favourite widower. Alice Jaye needs Dean Foster. A single mother struggling to make ends meet, Alice relies on the second income from Foster's Garage to help make ends meet. But by taking a second job, Alice is losing the very thing she needs most: time. Time with her son. Time to rest. Time to be more than a money-chasing zombie who hasn't had a grown-up dinner conversation in years. Both Dean and Alice feel like they've left romance behind, but as they start spending their days together and as their kids start to bond, it becomes clear that what begins in winter could grow into a very sweet spring.
He'll never come back to stay, unless someone asks him to... Funerals can bring people together who are best kept apart. Ethan Foster, home to mourn his sister-in-law, finds himself as unwelcome as ever in the town that once meant the world to him. For more than a decade he's been saddled with a bad reputation - a drunk, a deserter - and he's lived with it, will keep living with it, because the only way to clear his name is to share his secrets. But the secrets are not his to tell and their telling would destroy the family he loves and the woman he's never forgiven himself for leaving behind. Samantha O'Hara once loved freely, but now she doesn't. Now she leaves before she's left and keeps her vulnerabilities tucked away. But when Ethan Foster walks back into town, finally looking at her the way she always wanted him to, she finds her hard-won armour developing chinks. She can't - won't - have anything to do with any reinvention Ethan is going through. But maybe this isn't a new Ethan... Maybe he's the same Ethan she fell in love with all those years ago. And maybe, just maybe, this time their love will be strong enough to make him stay. Originally published as Ask Me To Stay. Expanded and revised edition.
Olivia 'Lawless' Law is back ... The only thing that could get Olivia back to her childhood home of Denman is a call from her best friend. Sam is planning a wedding, and Olivia agrees to help. But from the moment she arrives, nothing goes to plan. Sam's got cold feet. The town's people are apparently never going to forgive and forget Olivia's Big Mistake. And Sam's big brother Cal - Olivia's first crush and the town's sole pub owner - is all grown up now, with a heart as scarred as her own. Liv can't wait to get back to her life - far away from this judgemental town - but Sam's dug her heels in, which means Liv's spending a lot of time with Denman's favourite publican. Can Liv get her best friend down the aisle and win the town's forgiveness? And when it comes to Cal, can going back still mean moving forward?