“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

The house was too quiet when Mitch got home. Tess's car was in the garage, so unless she'd gone off with somebody else, she had to be here. Maybe she was napping. She'd been awfully tired since that stomach flu. Not that she'd appreciated it when he suggested she was working too hard and ought to take it easy. Tonight he'd opted for sneakier tactics to achieve the same end. He was cooking dinner. It wouldn't be on par with the Italian feast she'd made or even the everyday gourmet fare she tended toward, but by damn, he could grill. After stowing the groceries he'd picked up on the way home, he went to search her out.


Moving into the dark living room, he switched on a light, pulling up short when he spotted her curled in a chair, a mug in her hands. "Hey." He knew before the word even fell from his lips that something was very wrong. Her expression was too set, too serious.


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