Sterling Brick

Knox Sylver was the boy who left, and twenty years on he is back in his small hometown determined to make up for it. In this small-town romance, told from the point of view of the woman he left behind, a reunion comes at the worst possible moment. She is at her mother's funeral when she ends up locked in the men's restroom, a broken doorknob in her hand, and the person she meets when she gets out is her high school sweetheart, the one who got away and broke her heart.

Knox is no longer a teenager. He is broad-shouldered and scruffy, and he still looks at her as if no one else is in the room. She is newly divorced with two teenagers, and it has been a long time since anyone really noticed her. Knox is paying attention. He admits he made choices in the past that did not include her, but he calls that ancient history and insists it is never too late for a second chance.

He has come home after a career in the military and now works as a fireman, a local hero who wants to prove he is steady and dependable and to rekindle what they once had. This time the decision belongs to her. She has to choose between staying in a town full of painful memories and leaving both the past and Knox behind once more.

Sterling Brick comes from L.B. Dunbar and offers a big family, a small-town setting and the silver fox appeal of her love over 40 romances.