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Tanner Newman has fought for everything she has. Rising from personal tragedy and abandonment to become a successful businesswoman and devoted guardian to her younger brother, she’s built a successful life from the ground up. Now, heartbroken and burned out, she returns to her hometown of Earlington, for a reunion with the theatre friends who once felt like her escape. Melanie Campbell never left. She’s built a quiet, steady life running a busy town-centre pub and dating the man everyone says is perfect. But something in her heart doesn’t quite fit - something she can’t name, and certainly can’t share. With the pub’s future uncertain and questions she’s never dared ask bubbling to the surface, Mel feels her world shifting. When Tan and Mel reconnect, the past stirs with unexpected intensity. Old friendships are rekindled - but so is something deeper, something neither of them expected. As walls come down and sparks fly, they must decide if they're ready to risk everything for a love that could finally feel like home.
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(6)Comfortable was really the word that floated in Mel’s mind. That was how she’d been describing her life lately: safe and steady. And yet, beneath that contentment, a quiet restlessness stirred. An unshakable sense that something needed to shift.
“Melanie Campbell—” “Izzie’s older sister? She was hot.” Robbie grinned. Tan lifted a brow and continued, “Sophie Lester—” “She was hot too.” “You were fourteen. All my friends were hot to you.”
“Okay, fine. I got some vibes off a woman I used to know, and I don’t know how to interpret them.” Maybe it was easier to explain than Tan had thought. “What sort of vibes?”
“Parents’ prerogative, I guess. Well, normal parents.”
Izzie’s eyes shot wide open. “Something happened with Tanner!”
“So you were influenced,” her mum said, still trying, it seemed, to find answers to something she couldn’t fathom. “Oh, shut up!” Izzie snapped at her. “Come on.”