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What would life be like with the one who got away?
Bantam
June 2009
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Featuring: Gwen Merchant
288 pages
ISBN: 0385341911
EAN: 9780385341912
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
For Gwen Merchant, love has always been doled out in little packetsโfrom her father, a marine biologist who buried himself in work after her motherโs death; and from her husband, Peter, whoโs always been respectable and safe. But when an old college boyfriend, the irrepressible Elliot Hull, invites himself back into Gwenโs life, she starts to remember a time when love was an ocean. What does Elliot want? In fact, he has a rather surprising proposition: he wants Gwen to become his wife. His pretend wife. Just for a few days. To accompany him to his familyโs lake house for the weekend so that he can fulfill his dying motherโs last wish. Reluctantly Gwen agrees to play alongโwith her husband Peterโs full support. Itโs just one weekendโwhat harm could come of it?But as Gwen is drawn into Elliotโs quirky, wonderful familyโhis astonishingly wise and open mother, his warm and welcoming sister, and his adorable, precocious nieceโshe starts questioning everything sheโs ever expected from love. And as she begins to uncover a few secrets about her own family, it suddenly looks like a pretend relationship just might turn out to be the most real thing sheโs ever known.
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