The Return

Noelle Adams

May 2020 · Second Chance Flower Shop Book 1 · Noelle Adams

About this ebook

Ria Phillips has a plan. Stay strong. Stay busy. Stay focused on what's important. And don't start daydreaming again about a certain pair of soulful hazel eyes.

No, it won't be easy. Jacob Worth was her first love. Her first time. Her first everything. Until he left town one day without explanation. He broke her heart back then, but she's not a teenager with a crush anymore. She's an adult--with a plan.

In the past eight years, Ria has built a good life for herself in her small hometown. She and her friends have used their creativity and business savvy to turn the little florist shop she inherited into an astonishing success. She's got more than enough in her life to be proud of, and she's going to make sure Jacob sees that.

She's not going to let him rattle her. She's not going to watch him from afar, even if he's even hotter than before. And she's definitely not going to fall into bed with him. Or, if she accidentally slips up, it will only be once.

She learned her lesson a long time ago, and she's not going to fall for Jacob again.

Ratings and reviews

What an especially sweet, heartfelt second chance romance! This couple were absolutely made for each other although life threw a wrench into their pathway when they graduated high school. Eight years later, Jacob has returned and Ria is determined to resist everything about him. Of course, that offers its own problems but the way she confronted her mixed emotions was very adult and unique in today’s contemporary romances. I adored Jacob and was especially pleased to have his point of view! Knowing what he was thinking, feeling and the way he processed life around him made me fall completely in love with him. He was a man’s man and yet broken and vulnerable inside. When it came to dealing with Ria and his feelings, he didn’t hesitate to speak his emotions. This is a fast read with a great pace to it moving the reader quickly from one point to the next and never bogging it down with unnecessary angst or drama. The conflict this couple faces was genuine and once more unique in the way they deal with it. Add in the promise of even more in this series as well as a wonderful epilogue and this one was perfect to take me out of the brain fog I’ve been living in lately.

A simply beautiful and truly captivating story about a lasting, long-distance, forgiveness-focused, and forever-remembered love for one person, no matter what!

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