The Day He Came Back

The Day He Came Back

<b><i>NOW A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER.</i></b> From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel.<br /><br />It was the summer of my life.<br />I'd met the guy of my dreams.<br />Unfortunately, he was the son of my uppity employer--and very much off-limits.<br />But Gavin was a rebel. He knew his mother would disown him if she found out about us; in his eyes, we just had to be careful.<br />He never treated me as his mother did--like hired help.<br />Instead, Gavin put me on a pedestal and loved me harder than I'd ever been loved in my life.<br /><br />What a summer it was.<br />Until it all ended--badly.<br /><br />I was never supposed to see Gavin again.<br />That didn't stop me from thinking about him every day for ten years.<br />I knew little about his life now, just that he was an entrepreneur living an ocean away.<br /><br />When a twist of fate had me working again in the very place our love affair started a decade earlier, I knew it was only a matter of time before I might see him again.<br />But I wasn't prepared.<br />What if he hated me?<br />What if he loved someone else now?<br />I wasn't prepared for all the unknowns.<br /><br />And most of all, I wasn't prepared for today to be the day he came back.