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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 packetsβfrom her father, a marine biologist who buried himself in work after her motherβs death; and from her husband, Peter, whoβs always been respectable and safe. But when an old college boyfriend, the irrepressible Elliot Hull, invites himself back into Gwenβs 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 familyβs lake house for the weekend so that he can fulfill his dying motherβs last wish. Reluctantly Gwen agrees to play alongβwith her husband Peterβs full support. Itβs just one weekendβwhat harm could come of it?But as Gwen is drawn into Elliotβs quirky, wonderful familyβhis astonishingly wise and open mother, his warm and welcoming sister, and his adorable, precocious nieceβshe starts questioning everything sheβs 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 sheβs ever known.
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