Hart's Landing

Mila Ferguson left Hart's Landing ten years ago, after a fire, a stolen kiss and the breakup of her closest circle of friends. Four of them had promised to live one night as if it were their last, and the fallout from that night sent her away.

Now a crisis forces her back to her hometown. Her plan is simple: get in, get out, and avoid both her mother's constant criticism and Everett McKean, the boy she once had a crush on. Everett, however, turns up everywhere she goes.

Everett is the town's mayor, well liked and good-looking, and he has never settled down. He has also never stopped wondering about Mila. Her return gives him a second chance he did not know he was waiting for, and he intends to take it. This is a small-town contemporary romance with a second-chance dynamic, built around friendships as much as a love affair.

Mila slowly lets Everett in and starts mending the friendships she abandoned. Then questions surface about what really happened the night she left, and the fire that destroyed the bakery becomes a matter of blame again. If she learns who started it, the truth could free her or burn down the life she is trying to build.