Forever This Time: An Echo Lake Novel

Maggie McGinnis

Dec 2020 · Echo Lake Book 2 · Maggie McGinnis

About this ebook

*** Formerly published in 2015 under the same title. This book has been extensively revised from the original. ***

USA TODAY® Bestselling author Maggie McGinnis welcomes us to Echo Lake, Vermont, where just the right wishes can lead to sparkly, unexpected happily-ever-afters.

Boston therapist Josie Kendrew specializes in helping other people mend their broken hearts, but her own heart is another story. After years of putting distance between herself and her childhood home, she's forced to rush back to Echo Lake, Vermont when her father has a stroke, but once she arrives, painful memories threaten to send her driving right back out of town. Between her sweet "little sister" and Ethan Miller, the boy she left behind, Josie finds herself face-to-face with a pain she's not sure she can endure. Ethan is now--wow--all man, and he's sitting in the CFO chair of Snowflake Village, her family's Christmas-themed amusement park ... a place noted by journalists as charming and sweet and festive, but a place she's derisively called Camp Ho-Ho forever--or at least since she was old enough to watch the twinkly lights and endless hours destroy her parents.

Ethan Miller never set out to be the one left behind, but when Josie blew out of town ten years ago with no explanation, suddenly that's who he was. After a week spent mostly in a Jim Beam haze, he tucked her engagement ring in a drawer and set out to make a life for himself, though their history gnaws at him every day he walks the pathways of Snowflake Village. A lot has changed since Josie fled, so when she drives back in, a mixture of angry, scared, and sad, he has no idea whether she'll stay ... or leave him shattered once again.

As the days turn into weeks, both Ethan and Josie realize that maybe, just maybe, Snowflake Village might hold more than just ghosts from the past. It might hold the possibility of a second chance at love...

Ratings and reviews

This is a sweet story, but needs a lot of proofreading and editing. Also, "mangia taj" isn't Italian. J isn't even a letter in the Italian alphabet and only has a sound for foreign words.

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About the author

Maggie McGinnis is a USA Today bestsellingauthor and Golden Heart Finalist who lives in New England, vastlyoutnumbered by both children and cats. She used to be an Englishteacher, a certified black belt, and a cool-car driver. Then ... twins.Now she swills caffeine while driving the one vehicle she swore she'dnever own: a minivan.

She's a sucker for romantic comedies,popcorn, and the perfect green pen, and if she wasn't an author, she'dtotally be rocking a Nashville club in her pink cowgirl boots. It'sprobably good that she embraced the author thing, because her singingskills are better suited to the shower, and really? Pink cowgirl boots?