All I Ever Wanted
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Publisher Description
In this romantic comedy, the reunion between a teacher and her army veteran ex-love might make for the hottest summer this small town has ever seen.
Eat a stick of butter or return to her hometown? School teacher Kinsley Bailey would rather risk the caloric overload. Staunton, Virginia, is laced in bad memories of a mentally ill mother, an estranged father, and the first boy who broke her heart. Yet the news of her father’s death has forced her return to the nightmare. Now in the heat of summer, Kinsley’s left unraveling the mysteries surrounding a house, an antique gun collection, a flabby basset hound, and a safety deposit box that no one in the family wants to discuss.
After a series of tough breaks, army soldier Bastian Harris desires the serenity of small town life in Staunton. Even with women signing up for his shooting courses and emphasizing their desires for a different kind of target practice, he keeps his nose down and his gun in his holster. Yet when a certain auburn-haired blast from the past comes blazing into his shop to sell her late father’s antique gun collection, he might have to reconsider the tranquil life and take up arms for the one woman he could never forget.
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Former childhood best friends find comfort in each other while dealing with bitter pasts and learning lessons of forgiveness in Mills's debut novel, which launches her Summer Love contemporary romance series. Schoolteacher Kinsley Bailey returns to her hometown, Staunton, Va., After the death of her absentee father, who'd had nothing to do with her since she was eight years old. The situation was difficult enough without her running into and entering a business agreement with the only other man who'd ever broken her heart: Sebastian "Bass" Harris. The betrayals of his ex-wife and best friend pretty much cemented Bass's single status, but he's perfectly happy to make good no-strings-attached use of Kinsley's remaining time in town. When steamy nights are offset by meaningful conversation and joyous times with Bass's daughter, Kinsley begins to battle those old feelings. She's longer the na ve teenager Bass once knew, and she leaves him with two options: admit his romantic inclinations or let her go. Small-town connections between well-developed, moderately witty characters will leave readers satisfied and anticipating the sequel.
