Emily and Lucas's story begins in When You Came Back and continues here.
Summer has come and gone.
I've left Seabright. I'm staying with my friend Leandra, and I have three job offers.
Not one is in my beloved Boston. None of them feels like what I want to do next. While I try to work that out, I'm finally going to Umbria to visit my parents.
But then the bombshell: Lucas proposes.
I don't have an answer for him.
It isn't that I don't love him. I do.
But I know Lucas. I've seen this crazy whirlwind he lives in that's his normal-the restaurants, the food courts, the television work, the meetings, the flights, the problems that always need him to be somewhere else.
He's asking me to marry him.
I don't think he's ready. Frankly, I don't think he has the time to be half of a couple.
So I get on with my own plans. I'm looking online at fares. Economy, obviously.
Lucas decides to buy my ticket.
Business class, of course. The only way it makes sense to travel long haul, he tells me.
And, of course, he's in the seat beside me.
For a weekend in Paris.
Who goes to Paris for the weekend? We do, at least in his world.
Paris is beyond wonderful. We walk. We eat. We talk. It's like the first time we are really, truly, totally together.
But like a dream, it comes to an end. I'm going on to Umbria to see the parents, and he has a thousand responsibilities demanding his attention back home.
But Lucas McNichol has another surprise for me.
Contemporary women's fiction about careers, relationships, family and the choices that shape a life. Perfect for readers of Katherine Center and Annabel Monaghan.