Once We Were...

Remember your first love?
Okay, maybe it wasn't love, but that first boy or girl who consumed your mind. Maybe you were five or fifteen, imagining a future together, feeling so sure in your heart you could be happy together, if only you could get them to notice you! Welcome to the series of stand-alone, romance novels, Once We Were...
Each novel features a new couple and you can read them in any order, but they care connected by a single thread; A childhood crush!

Engaged, Kinda

When Thirty-four-year-old Cassie receives a wedding invitation from her high school crush, Nick Baker, she’s shocked to find the bride is… Her.

The invite is a reminder of a drunken promise she made years ago, “If we’re still single by the time we’re 35, we get married. Ok?” He ghosted her the next day, and for nine years she was left to wonder why.

 

Working her underpaid, dead-end job and living in her sister’s flat, Cassie has no idea what life holds for her this time next year, but she’s pretty sure it’s not a wedding. Her goals are far more realistic; a boyfriend who isn’t a jerk half the time, a promotion, her own place, and a cat. Not too much to ask for right? 

 

Cassie may have been smitten with Nick since she was fifteen, but she is determined not to let him break her heart again, no matter how intent he seems to work his way back into her life. Nick has changed since her youth, but he still has all the charm and looks that made her fall for him in the first place, weakening her will-power with every word, smile, and glass of wine. Still, Nick has nine years of explaining to do, and when his past starts interfering with his plans, the man she loves reverts into the boy who ghosted her.

 

Cassie needs to decide: Is she willing to risk another nine years of heartbreak for a chance at love?

One Foot Out the Door

Eleanor thought she'd outgrown her hometown.

She certainly thought she'd outgrown Rory Callahan.

After years climbing the corporate ladder, twenty-six-year-old Eleanor Blain returns home expecting to organize her mother's affairs and leave as quickly as possible. Instead, she finds her fiercely independent mother is struggling, her finances are in chaos, and the beautiful old house she grew up in is one storm away from disaster.

 

Even worse, she finds Rory. Her childhood neighbor and friend, the boy she used to climb trees with, is all grown up and looking a little too good. What begins as reluctant cooperation soon turns into friendship, flirtation, and a passion neither can resist.

 

The problem? Eleanor has no intention of sticking around.

 

As secrets, jealousy, and betrayal threaten to destroy their fragile connection, Eleanor must decide whether success is really worth the price she's paid to achieve it.