Unfinished Business

When Marisa Marshall comes back to Maple Grove after her winter vacation, she learns that Lyle Cabot has returned to town. The startling news sitrs up all the Unfinished Business of the past and all the painful emotions she thought were dead--emotions she wanted dead. Years ago, Lyle's brother and father, a former mayor of Maple Grove, tried to frame Marisa and send her to prison to hush up a crime perpetrated by Lyle's brother--a crime Marisa witnessed.Only a miracle saved her. Although Marisa can't fathom why the handsome plastic surgeon has returned to a tiny town where there is little market for his skills, she vows to avoid him.But her resolve is tested when Lyle enrolls his five-year-old child in the school where Marisa works as a speech language pathologist, and the chlld desperately needs Marisa's skills. His career destroyed, grief-stricken Lyle Cabot hopes to build a new life for himself and his daughter on the family farm. The wealthy widower also wants to make amends for the legacy of shame is family left. But will Marisa let him? He hopes so because she is the first woman he finds attracitve since his wife died.He also wants to finish the Unfinished Business between them and convince her to fall in love.








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