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In this poignant bestseller, high school sweethearts get a second chance after twenty-three years apart. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Publishers Weekly Review

This engaging, up-to-the-minute romance of high school sweethearts reunited will gratify Spenser's ( Morning Glory ) fans . The untimely death of her husband leaves Maggie Pearson wealthy but emotionally bereft. Two decades after she has left home, Maggie returns to Wisconsin to fortify her spirits and decides to open a bed-and-breakfast despite dire warnings from her tight-lipped mother and the hurt fury of her college-age daughter. Her first love, Eric Severson, is also back in town, running a family-owned charter fishing boat to the great displeasure of his beautiful, ambitious wife. As Eric and his spouse battle over whether to sidetrack her career in favor of a baby, he and Maggie drift together. Their illicit affair is as sweet as puppy love but fraught with predictable consequences; the disapproval they face adds a sharp and welcome tang to this sometimes cloying brew. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

The author of Morning Glory (Putnam, 1989) has turned her practiced hand to a new romance. Maggie Stearn returns for a visit to her childhood home in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, to sort through recent losses--her husband's death in an airplane crash and her daughter's departure for Northwestern University. Among the many old friendships renewed is one with Eric Severson, her first love, now married to the glamorous Nancy Macaffee. Coaxed by longtime confidante Brookie Kerschner, Maggie decides to leave the sorrow of widowhood behind by closing out her life in Seattle, and she invests some of her insurance money in the renovation of a historic old Fish Creek house, planning to operate it as a bed-and-breakfast place. Her proximity to Eric generates old feelings and new problems, complicated by her mother's censure, her daughter's antagonism, and her own uncertainties as she charts a perilous emotional course. Readers who can accept the plausibility of Maggie's original separation from Eric will enjoy following her journey of self-discovery and reawakening. --Susan Nelson

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LaVyrle Spencer was born in Browerville, Minnesota on July 17, 1943. While working as a teacher's aide at Osseo Junior High School, she started writing her first novel, The Fulfillment, which was published in 1979. She has written more than a dozen novels that have hit the New York Times bestseller list, and many of her works have been condensed for Reader's Digest and Good Housekeeping. She has won five Romance Writers of America RITA Awards for her novels The Endearment, Hummingbird, Twice Loved, The Gamble, and Morning Glory. In 1988, she was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. Many of her novels have been made into television movies including The Fulfillment, Home Song, and Family Blessings and the major motion picture Morning Glory. She retired from writing in 1997.

(Bowker Author Biography)