Returning to Grace Harbor

by Amelia Joy · Inspirational Romance

She ran. He stayed. Fifteen years later, forgiveness is the only thing she can't earn. Claire Holloway spent fifteen years building a life that proved she was right to leave. Boston career, city apartment, editorial credentials — a resume that said I didn't abandon you; I became someone. Six months ago, all of it collapsed. The press folded. The boyfriend left. The lease expired. Now she's thirty-three, unemployed, and standing on her mother's porch in the small Maine town she swore she'd outgrown — carrying a suitcase that costs more than her pride and wearing the expression of a woman who has run out of other places to run. Grace Harbor remembers her. So does he. Liam Hale builds wooden boats by hand in a waterfront workshop. He goes to church on Sundays. He has sawdust in his eyebrows and grey-green eyes that take their time finding you. Fifteen years ago, he was the boy Claire loved and left without a word.