In Irrepressible Desire

Their paths have been woven together again.
The stakes are higher now.
And their need for one another is more impossible than before.

Married and pregnant Abigail Bouchard spent years believing that her tragic experience with young love came at a price too steep to pay a second time. Her new husband symbolizes the stability that she requires in order to be the mother she needs to be–whether she’s ready for that responsibility or not.

Josh agreed to stay in Halifax for Abby’s ailing sister, Grace, but the impact of his return to the sisters’ family home is bound to stir up familiar emotions far too powerful to ignore. The life Abby is trying to protect demands one version of her; the love she’s never let go of demands another. And the consequence of choosing wrong would ripple far beyond her own heart.

A story of longing that deepens instead of fading, this installment of the series follows Josh and Abby as they navigate the fragile space between duty and desire, fear and truth, and the enduring pull of a love that refuses to be forgotten.

“It wasn’t the first time they had danced around the topic. It had remained below the surface, cleverly tucked away, only alluded to at most. Him spending so much time with her. Her being married. Her being pregnant. Him still painfully in love with her. Her doing her best to pretend that she didn’t feel the exact same way about him. They joked about it. They acted like it wasn’t true. They were actors in a TV show or players in a play. How very hip and unbothered they all were to take part in this comedy of errors and not become burdened by real feelings.”