Quinn’s journey is at once more subtle and more brutal. Sawyer is wonderful, she deserves all the happiness in the world. Witnessing her learning to stand up for herself was a thing of beauty.

Sawyer is too kind for her own good, which can be mistaken for meekness.

The shift from anger to lust on Sawyer’s part may feel a little rushed but I don’t care. Through Sawyer, I understood Quinn’s reasons for leaving, and from then on was all in. It took a little while for me to warm up to Quinn, just as it did for Sawyer when Quinn comes back. Monica McCallan makes all that pent-up lust, all the feelings both MCs fought as teens rush up to the surface in a way that makes them palpable to the reader. Despite everything that went on before Quinn left, despite the way she left, despite the hurt and misunderstandings, neither Quinn nor Sawyer can fight the attraction that blazes back as soon as they meet again. Maybe it needs to be awakened, rekindled, or maybe it’s still as strong. I’ve said this before, I love second chance romance novels because the chemistry is already existing.

I still want to add that trope to the childhood friends to lovers and return to hometown ones, since it’s got all my favourite ingredients. While Quinn and Sawyer never were together before Quinn left Kingsford, they secretly pined for each other. In my book, this qualifies as a second chance romance, but it’s not completely accurate. Close to twenty years later, work brings her back to her hometown and a second chance at broken relationships. When Quinn moved to New York City from her hometown of Kingsford, she left everything and everyone behind: her depressed mother, her younger sister Kelly, her former best friend Sawyer who meant everything to her. Neither are the same people they were when they'd met in college, but do either of them know who they are now? In a world of playing pretend, it's hard to know what's real, even if it's right in front of them.I’m not sure why but this was my first book by Monica McCallan. Clair, at least that's what she goes by now, on set, and her presence sends Sloane's already precarious life into a tailspin when their paths collide again. But she wasn't expecting to see Campbell St.

She's done this enough times that she just needs to follow the script and hit her lines. The movie is a great opportunity for her, and in spite of her ambivalence, the show must go on. Sloane Murphy's career has been careening forward for the last decade, so it doesn't matter that she doesn't like being an actress. Her ability to write her newest novel has been practically non-existent, she's all but given up on having a social life, and with the recent loss of her father, she's trying to understand what she wants for her future. She should be excited that she'll be consulting on the movie adaptation, but she's struggling. Clair never expected her first novel to catapult her to success.

Back in your arms monica mccallan