“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

"WELL, IT'S HAPPENED!" RUBY made this pronouncement in tones of The end is nigh, as she marched up to the counter.


Riley looked up from the computer. "What's happened? And what are you even doing here? It's your day off."


"Walgreens is opening a store out on the highway."


"I just had it from Pearl." Ruby's sister, Pearl Buckley - Mama Pearl to everyone else in town - ran the local diner, Dinner Belles, and was the undisputed queen of gossip in Wishful.


Jessie paused in the midst of inputting the prescriptions that'd been called in. "How on earth did we not know this?"


"I don't got a clue, but what are we gonna do about it?" Ruby demanded, shifting her attention back to Riley.


"What do you mean do about it?" It wasn't like they could engage in some kind of corporate espionage or something. "We're going to carry on with business as usual. It'll take them time to build and stock a store. We're fine."


Chapter 30