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I said I’d never set foot on Oakley Island again. Not so long as HE lived there. But after my life implodes, I’m reconsidering EVERYTHING. Including my reasons for avoiding the first—and only—man I’ve ever loved.

I’m a high achiever. Driven. Maybe a little TOO driven.

So when my boyfriend confesses to cheating AND steals the promotion I’ve been working toward for years, I do the unthinkable for someone like me.

I break.

But the timing couldn’t be better for me to fall apart—I can escape to the idyllic Oakley Island and oversee the renovations on my late grandmother’s estate.

There’s just one tiny, massive, little problem: no one told me the contractor is the grown up version of the boy I fell in love with years ago.

He was my first love. My first kiss.

My first heartbreak.

Now, I’m faced with seeing Hunter daily. Being his boss. Forging a new dynamic that fits our adult selves.

Hunter is bigger. Bearded. Talks in grunts rather than words.

And has just as much hold on me as he ever did.

Trouble is, Hunter’s life is on Oakley. His daughter is on Oakley. And it was never my plan to stay here permanently.
Do I really want to risk having my heart broken a second time? More importantly, do I want to risk breaking his?

I LOVED Eloise and the Grump Next Door so much that I bought the rest of the series. Second-chance romances aren’t my favorite, but I didn’t want to miss out on any part of Lo’s, Merritt’s, and Sadie’s stories.

As expected, this wasn’t my favorite book, but that has less to do with St. Clair’s and Proctor’s writing style and more to do with the trope. As I mentioned above, second-chance romance stories aren’t my favorite because there’s the tendency to flashback. (If you know me at all, you know how much I dislike flashbacks/dual timeline.) As I suspected, that happened. It’s not that the flashbacks weren’t well written or out of context, they just aren’t my favorites.

That being said, the parts set in the contemporary time period were swoony and sweet and everything I wanted from/hoped for in a sweet contemporary romance. Now I’m ready (and can’t wait!) to read Sadie’s story.

Rated PG.

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