“Failure” has never been a part of Norah Burke’s vocabulary, so it comes as quite a shock when she gets fired from the marketing firm where she's built her career after threatening to blow the whistle on some shady business practices. Licking her wounds, she heads South for a little home-grown comfort.

Cam Crawford is a man who values tradition, preservation, and the love of a good woman. He’s not about to let a big box warehouse store capitalize on his hometown's economic downturn. He'll raise hell if he has to in order to stop them from destroying what he holds dear.

This unlikely pair just might be the perfect allies—in war and out. But will this city girl's bigger-picture perspective go with this small-town boy's "keep it as it is" attitude? And even if they can send the suits packing, can she really give up her corner office and power lunches for the corner booth at the local diner?

Wishful Romance is created by Kait Nolan, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

Wishful Romance

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY weren't willing to put this off until tomorrow," Norah said. "We've been back in town, what? An hour and a half?"


"I don't set the schedule. I just show up when they tell me," Cam said, as they strode across the town green for a City Council meeting.


"I still don't understand why they wanted me there."


"Don't look at me. I've been in Chicago with you. It's not one of our regularly scheduled meetings. Nobody even sent me an agenda. Maybe they want you to liaise in your official capacity."


Norah scowled. "I could liaise a lot better if I were unpacked and settled. And if I'd slept since December."


"Yeah the last three weeks haven't so much maintained our original impression of Wishful being a sleepy little town. On the plus side, nobody looking at you would know you'd been driving for the last seven hours."


Chapter 26