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The One That Came Back
A Spicy Small Town Romance · Harper Vale
The captain who stayed and the editor who left at twenty-nine are in the same Oregon bar again. The weekly paper is about to print the marina sale. They still know how to wreck each other. They might know how to stay.
Willa Crowe comes back to Wrecker's Bay to bury an uncle and keep his weekly paper alive for a season. Cal Briggs is still at the Split Hull with a soda he isn’t enjoying and six years of silence in his mouth. She left at twenty-nine. He stayed. That was the whole fight.
The Bay Weekly has to print the marina sale: Pell & Associates, an unsigned captain list, a town that wants its slips to stay working-local. Cal’s name is easy to steal. He isn’t their yes—but an old invoice and a Portland stringer would love if he were.
They sleep together too soon, in a boat cabin that remembers them. Then they have to work the story anyway. Angry sex in a truck. A kitchen that is not a driveway. A hit piece she kills because it’s a lie, not because his mouth is on her neck.
Spicy small-town romance. Second chance. Found family at the Split Hull. HEA. Book 2 in the Wrecker's Bay series.
Wrecker's Bay
Book 02 of 6
- Heat
- 4 of 5 — what this means
- Pairing
- MF · Cal Briggs (39) × Willa Crowe (35)
- Length
- 57,386 words · 10 chapters · 216 printed pages
- Point of view
- Dual, third person past
- ISBN
- Paperback: ISBN not yet issued · Hardcover: ISBN not yet issued
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The whole of chapter one — 6,784 words, about 28 minutes. No email, no account, and it does not stop mid-scene.
Questions about The One That Came Back
How long is The One That Came Back?
57,386 words across 10 chapters. In the paperback that is 216 pages at 5.5 × 8.5 in, or about 4 hours of reading. The audiobook runs 6 hours 39 minutes.
How explicit is The One That Came Back?
Heat 4 of 5. Multiple explicit scenes, dirty talk, on-page climax. The couple is the A-plot at every level, and every romantic or sexual character in this catalogue is 25 or older.
Do I have to read Wrecker's Bay in order?
No. The One That Came Back is book 2 of 6 and resolves its own couple, so it works on its own. The series plot runs underneath and is better in order.
Can I read part of The One That Came Back first?
Yes — the whole of chapter one, 6,784 words, free on this site. No email address and no account, and it does not stop mid-scene.
Who is The One That Came Back written for?
MF romance. A woman and a man, dual point of view.
Is there an audiobook of The One That Came Back?
Yes, 6 hours 39 minutes, and it costs nothing on top — it comes with the printed book like the ebook does.
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