Gloria has spent ten years inside a relationship that nearly erased her, and freedom leaves her with the harder job of working out who she was before it.
Lucy Score writes small-town romance with a comic surface and real damage underneath. Gloria's recovery happens in her mother's kitchen, between beauty treatments, cocktails and a firm decision to avoid men for the foreseeable future. Aldo Moretta, the hometown figure everyone already adores, complicates that decision immediately and then leaves the country for six months. What the novel does well is let the attraction and the healing run on separate clocks, so the romance never treats the past as something neatly resolved.
Key features:
• Contemporary small-town romance with a second-chance arc
• A heroine rebuilding after a controlling relationship, handled with care
• Slow-burn structure built around distance and a delayed reunion
• Written by Lucy Score, whose Things We Never Got Over found a wide readership
For readers of contemporary romance who like warmth with substance, available from Boipoka.