South Village was safe…or so she thought!
The secure world that Rachel Wellers has carefully constructed is crumbling around her. Her sweet twelve-year-old daughter is turning into a sullen teenager before her eyes. The injuries she’s just sustained in a hit-and-run accident are jeopardizing her career. And worst of all, Ben Asher—the man she sent away thirteen years ago—is back, tipped off by her daughter that they need him.
When Ben hears that Rachel has been injured, he panics. In an instant, he drops his obsession—photojournalism—and returns to the city that he swore he’d never visit again. He doesn’t want to question his motives for doing so…he only knows he has to protect Rachel. Suddenly he’s convinced the hit-and-run wasn’t an accident. Rachel might have been hurt because of him.
But he doesn’t count on the feelings that get stirred up being with her…or how hard it will be to leave her again.
Originally published in 2003. AMAZON 4 STARS
This is an emotional story with some intensity to it. Both Rachel and Ben are complex people who have been strongly shaped by their dysfunctional childhoods. Ben coming from a place of being an unwanted foster kid who is always being told to go away. He doesn't stay where he isn't wanted. His job helps him stay on the move, not really put down roots any place. Even the thought of staying in one place without a way of escape makes him begin to feel claustrophobic. Rachel needs the exact opposite she NEEDS roots, a permanent place to stay. And she loves the city that she found. She came from riches but her father was always on the move, uprooting her and her sister Melanie all the time.
Thirteen years is a long time to avoid each other but there hurts are too deep to really get to the talk that they really needed. Their daughter Emily's call to her father Ben brings that avoidance to a screeching halt. Twelve year old Emily was a lot of fun, pre-teen angst and all.
I really enjoyed this book a lot, it was a fast read and I liked that Melanie had to face her demons too. There is a man that helped her face them and he is all in for the long haul. That romance was shown more lightly and towards the end but it was good.
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