I Love a Good Challenge
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Love in Birch Borough | Book 2
When you fight with me
it feels like you’re fighting for me.
Lily
I want the steady kind of love—the gritty kind that can handle fire and failure and won’t be lost along the way. The kind of love that can be tested and tried and stretched to the edge of itself without shattering. A love I can’t run away from, no matter how hard I try.
In my small, New England town of Birch Borough, I’m the unexpected one. The woman who wears black and says whatever outlandish things she wants. Despite devoting my life to perfecting the chocolate concoctions in my bakery, they seem to hate me. I dream of men in great coats, but I can’t imagine being someone’s first choice. Until Graham.
Meeting Graham was like being struck by lightning, and it left a jagged tear in its wake. Now, as the maid of honor and best man in our dearest friends’ wedding, I’m determined to get him out of town and finally out of my heart. I issue him a series of challenges—winner takes all. Graham may be everything I’ve ever dreamed of, but when I look in the mirror, all I see is a woman who let the love of her life think he meant less to her than she ever did to him. If I can’t have his ring on my finger, then it’s time to get in the ring. May the best woman (and certainly not the best man) win.
Graham
If you ever meet a woman named Lily, run. This is the greatest lesson I’ve learned since the Lily who lives in Birch Borough ruined my life.
My Lily has at least eight different smiles. One in particular for when she used to look at me. While she may think she can run me out of town with her challenges and her wit, I’m here to stay. Our best friends are getting married. I’m ready to plant some roots and make Birch Borough my home too.
I’ll use every bit of my experience as a lawyer to counter Lily’s arguments, though I feel like my soul is limping every time I see her blonde ponytail in my peripheral vision. If it takes the rest of my life to prove that I still want to hold her close to my heart—even after she broke it—it’s worth the risk. Because, after all, I do love a good challenge.
I Love You in French
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Somewhere in my deep well of memories,
I can still hear my father saying,
“Wait for the French kind of love.”
Sparrow
I want a love – the hit me in the guts and make me feel something kind of love. The kind of love my parents shared. My father was American and my mother was French, and while I’ve never had a desire to leave my small, New England town of Birch Borough, or my bakery and café, Sparrow’s Beret, I want to be brave. And I’m not sure that I am.
My chances at finding a life changing love feel more like a fallen soufflé than a flaky maple croissant.
Cue Handsome Stranger. He’s new to our town and while his voice is like the crackly top of a perfect crème brûlée, I’ve made the ridiculous mistake of falsely claiming (twice) that I’ll date a Frenchman or date no man. And, as you can see, it clearly hasn’t worked for me so far.
Rafe
When I landed in Birch Borough, all I wanted was to find a way to get back my creative spark so I could write the lyrics I needed to make music again. I didn’t plan on meeting Sparrow, a woman who has single handedly turned my world upside down with a glimpse of her face on a moving train car.
To find her again feels like fate. So much so that when I end up offering to help her get the man of her dreams, I don’t realize that I’m about to be in the fight of my life to not hold on to her myself.
And after the heartache I’ve had between Paris and LA, from famous parents to an ex who stole my songs, I can’t find the courage to tell her my secret. If she’s going to love me, it has to be for me and definitely not because I’m French. So I know I can’t fall for her. Except, I already have.
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