The Day He Came Back

NOW A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER. From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel.

It was the summer of my life.
I'd met the guy of my dreams.
Unfortunately, he was the son of my uppity employer--and very much off-limits.
But Gavin was a rebel. He knew his mother would disown him if she found out about us; in his eyes, we just had to be careful.
He never treated me as his mother did--like hired help.
Instead, Gavin put me on a pedestal and loved me harder than I'd ever been loved in my life.

What a summer it was.
Until it all ended--badly.

I was never supposed to see Gavin again.
That didn't stop me from thinking about him every day for ten years.
I knew little about his life now, just that he was an entrepreneur living an ocean away.

When a twist of fate had me working again in the very place our love affair started a decade earlier, I knew it was only a matter of time before I might see him again.
But I wasn't prepared.
What if he hated me?
What if he loved someone else now?
I wasn't prepared for all the unknowns.

And most of all, I wasn't prepared for today to be the day he came back.