
Author: Haley Cass
Genre: Contemporary Romance 🌶️
Tropes: Angsty, Return to Hometown, Slow Burn
Series: N/A
Pages: 446
Published: November 19th, 2019
Format: ebook (KU), audiobook (libby)
Started: 02-15-2025
Finished: 02-16-2025
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synopsis
Free-spirited and easygoing Taylor Vandenberg left her hometown of Faircombe, Tennessee as soon as she could, and in the twenty-five years since, she has rarely looked back. She wouldn’t change anything about how her life has turned out – having traveled to nearly every country, never staying anywhere long enough to feel stifled. Very few things can hold her attention back in Faircombe: her sister/best friend, her precocious niece, and perhaps the prospect of riling up Brooke Watson.
Brooke has known Taylor for her entire life, given that her best friend is Taylor’s younger brother. And a lifelong knowledge of Taylor means that Brooke knows she’s trouble: irresponsible, takes nothing seriously, and is irritatingly attractive. Unlike Taylor, Brooke loves their town so much that she’s spent her adult life dedicated to making sure it doesn’t get swept away like many of the other declining small cities of the American South. Faircombe means the world to her, and she’s willing to do just about anything to make sure it flourishes.
Even if it means working with Taylor, whose path seems to continuously be crossing with Brooke’s everywhere she turns…
rant
- Honestly loved this book Haley Cass is definitely on my author watchlist now
- Really don’t have much to say about this other than it was really fucking good lmao
- The audiobook was AMAZING I fricking loved her went to look her up and she really doesn’t do sapphic books like that so now I’m devastated lmao
- Both of the main characters were written so well and were very consistent which I loved ‐ loved the progression that Taylor’s character made throughout the book ‐ I lowkey want to be her traveling around the world like that basically solo is insane tho
- Also the reason she left the town was pretty valid but I feel like maybe she could’ve went home to visit her family more?? Idk you left bc the ppl in town ain’t shit not bc your family ain’t shit
- ALSO I need a book about Taylor’s sister and Brooke’s coworker NOW like yesterday bitch I’m feining at this point
- Would read again w/ audio if I can find it for the free
noted & quoted
- Taylor surprising Brooke at the town meeting
- Their emails
- Their night at the hotel