Finding Our Way Back: A Small Town Second Chance Romance (Willowbrook Valley #3)

Fifteen years ago, Bonnie Murphy had a choice to make. She'd either have to end her relationship with her boyfriend of three years, or her mother would withhold her college tuition. Needing to get out from under her mother's thumb, she broke things off with Hunter and went to college. However, the devastation of the loss caused her to fail out of college after a semester. Upon returning at winter break, she found Hunter had moved on. With no more fight in her, she went along with her mother's plan for her to marry a man ten years her senior. Ten years into that marriage, her husband passed away, leaving her alone for the last five.

Hunter Jennings has spent the last fifteen years longing for the woman who broke his heart just before high school graduation. No one he's dated has ever been what she was to him. Five years ago, after her husband passed away, Bonnie started working as a waitress at the bar he and his friends frequent. The only words exchanged between them since that day that she walked away were when she'd take his order.

When a chance interaction leads to them rekindling their friendship, they're both mindful of the hurt waged in the past. As that friendship turns physical, Bonnie must face her fears over being with the man she loved all that time ago before Hunter grows to feel used—in being able to be with her only in secret and not entirely.