“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

IT TOOK LONGER FOR Chad to break free of the ER than he'd planned, so he made it only for the tail end of Mary Alice's presentation to hospital staff on Fountain of Hope. She was explaining how to fill out the paperwork that would allow people to adopt a child for the holiday season. He slipped in at the periphery, where he could watch and listen.


"Each coin has been anonymized, so it's important that the people doing the record-keeping make note of the identification number on each coin before releasing it to adopters."


Chad and Mary Alice had spent long hours after work the last two days getting all the coins filled out for each child and divided up for each participating local business. Long hours they'd spent talking about anything and everything. He knew someone else was doing the drop-off and explanation of process everywhere else, but Mary Alice had made the time to come to the hospital. He hoped she'd made the effort because of him.


Chapter 133