He's sweet, caring and loyal. She's independent, ambitious and brave.
To Julian, home, family and friends are everything. They're all he's got.
Ruby's heart is big enough to encompass the whole world. But she's all alone.
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Julian
Ruby was my universe. She was all I ever wanted. Then she left me in the dark the summer after grad with a shattered heart, all my dreams dead. The only place I've seen her face is on the televisions hanging in high-class kitchens around the world, haunting me. On the eve of our tenth high school reunion, she's suddenly back, and I don't know why. My hardened heart is cracked open like an egg. Though I never stopped loving her for a moment, how do I know I still want her? I'm not the same man I was then.
Ruby
Ten years ago, I buried the lede when I betrayed the love of my life and abandoned him to pursue my journalism career. Few people know what happened, and Julian isn't one of them. Burning with ambition, derailed by loss, I left Julian on the farm to travel the world, investigating others' strife and trouble. Ten eventful years have passed, and I'm finally back in Port Cam. Now I have to tell Julian the truth. After what I've been through, I'm not sure what I want or what I'm capable of, but the one thing I need is forgiveness.
Can their ten year high school reunion give these star-crossed lovers the ingredients to re-write their story?
Author's Note: A steamy, swoony second chance romance with a big-hearted hero out to save the world one dish at a time, and a wounded heroine who is starting to think hearth and heart might be the balm to heal her broken spirit.
Start reading book one of the brand new MOST UNLIKELY TO series of contemporary romances by USA Today Best-selling and award-winning author MaryAnn Clarke.
USA Today Bestselling author MaryAnn Clarke is a Chatelaine Grand Prize winner and Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist for The Art of Enchantment, first in the Life is a Journey series about young women on journeys abroad who discover themselves and fall in love while getting embroiled in someone else’s problems. Her Having it All series is about professional women struggling to balance the challenge and fulfillment of their careers with their search for identity, love, family and home. The first book in her newest small town steamy romance series, The Reporter’s UNLIKELY Reunion, won runner up in the 2024 Indie Writer’s Project Contest.
Always eager to fill blank pages and empty canvases with ideas swirling in her head, MaryAnn set out to write emotionally engaging stories that walk a tightrope between intelligent Women’s Fiction and heart-warming Romance.
A socially awkward polymath with ASD who studied Fine Arts, Urbanism, Architecture and Gerontology at university on both coasts of Canada, she turned to her first love, writing stories, when she realized she could have more fun with fewer rules to follow. When not writing, she meditates while hiking wooded mountain trails, does yoga and Pilates to fend off decrepitude, reads eclectically, contemplates wormholes, experiments with painting abstract expressionism, kills plants and tries not to burn dinner while solving her next plot problem. Now that her chick has flown the coop, Clarke lives on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada with her husband and cats. Although she knows she lives in Paradise, she still loves traveling the world in search of romance, art, good food and new story ideas.
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