Hometown Girl

My ex-husband went on live TV, called me the worst mistake of his life, and bragged that nobody would dare run against him in the election for mayor.

He was wrong about both.

Nineteen years I was Trace Halloway's wife. I left with a used car and a box of my mother's dishes.

Now I'm forty-one and I slice bologna at the Piggly Wiggly for $12 an hour.

His daddy owns the bank. His family has held the mayor's chair for twenty-two years. Nobody has ever beat them.

Then Trace said that on Channel 7 — and I heard it.

I've got no money and no help. But I ran his daddy's campaigns for eleven years, and I know every promise this family ever broke...and they broke a lot of them.

Cole Ashford is back too. His father took the blame when that mill shut down and four hundred people lost their jobs. He died with this town still believing it.

He thinks I picked the money over him.

He's about to find out why I really left all those years ago.

Small-town revenge. Second-chance love. One very satisfying night.

Happy ending guaranteed.