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    After Paradise: Hometown Heroes
    After Paradise: Hometown Heroes
    After Paradise: Hometown Heroes
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    After Paradise: Hometown Heroes

    By Allie Boniface

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    She's determined to play matchmaker while she's home for the summer. But what happens when she starts falling in love herself?


    Jen Oakes is a free-spirited medical student who's home on vacation enjoying Lindsey Point's beach scene. Max Wainfield is the local geek who's fallen for the wrong girl. They were friends in high school. She loves a challenge. Why not try and help Max get the girl he wants before Jen leaves at the end of August?

    The only trouble is, the more time Jen spends with Max, the more she isn't sure whether the other girl is right for him at all…

     

    If you love small-town romance, friends-to-lovers stories, and you're a fan of Nora Roberts and Robyn Carr, this book will have you turning the pages. Come check it out!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllie Boniface
    Release dateAug 11, 2016
    ISBN9781536570984
    After Paradise: Hometown Heroes
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    Allie Boniface

    Allie Boniface is the USA Today best-selling author of over a dozen novels, including the Cocktail Cruise, Hometown Heroes, Whispering Pines, and Drake Isle series. Her books are set in small towns and feature emotional, sensual romance with relatable characters you'll fall in love with.Allie currently lives in a small town in the beautiful Hudson Valley of New York with her husband and their two furry felines. When she isn't teaching high school and community college English, she likes to travel, lose herself in great music, or go for a run and think about her next story. Take some time to browse around Allie's website, check out new and upcoming releases, and sign up for her newsletter to get a FREE read right away. You'll get all the news about releases before everyone else, along with free stories available ONLY to subscribers. See you in virtual romance-land!

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      After Paradise - Allie Boniface

      Dear Reader, After Paradise is a novella that follows directly after the full-length novel The Promise of Paradise. Don’t worry! If you haven’t read The Promise of Paradise, you won’t be lost (although you might want to go back and pick it up after you finish this one). This novella is also the precursor to my Hometown Heroes series, set in the coastal town of Lindsey Point. I hope you’ll fall in love with these characters and want to read all their stories too!

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      Reviews for After Paradise:

      This was such a fast paced and flirty romance. I liked all the characters and enjoyed the lively banter. The beach provides a perfect setting for love and laughter.

      ~5-star Amazon review

      A lovely, sweet novella...A thoroughly enjoyable short read. Recommended!

      ~4-star Goodreads review

      CHAPTER 1

      Jen pulled off her flip-flops and stretched her feet onto the dashboard of the pickup truck.

      You really have to do that? Lucas looked over

      She rolled down the window and let her arm dangle. Just drive, little bro. The trip from the small town of Paradise, New Hampshire, to their even smaller hometown of Lindsey Point, Connecticut, took somewhere around three hours, depending on the weather and the traffic, if the Red Sox were in town.

      Finn texted earlier, Lucas said after a few miles. Big party down on the dunes tonight.

      Yeah? Jen rubbed sleepiness from her eyes. Cocktails at Eddie and Ash’s surprise engagement party, combined with mid-summer heat, had worn her out. She’d need a couple shots of espresso to stay up past nine. You going?

      Nah, not my scene. But I thought you might want to head down there, catch up with people.

      Thanks, I will. Lindsey Point residents rarely left town for long or for good, making Jen an anomaly. Lucas was the one who kept her filled in on what happened back home, including beach parties, breakups, and other important news.

      The air cooled, and Jen rolled up the window. Since splitting her time between her Boston apartment and Paradise over the summer, she hadn’t been home since Memorial Day. She’d never really thought of herself as a small-town girl, mostly because you couldn’t turn around in Lindsey Point without ninety percent of the residents knowing your every move, whether it was the time the entire junior class got caught drinking down by the haunted lighthouse, or the time the local priest discovered the prom king and queen having sex in the church parking lot.

      Still, something about growing up in a place where everyone knew your name, family, and dating history brought a certain degree of comfort. You could never get lost in a place like Lindsey Point, whether you wanted to or not. People knew you, had your back, and looked out for you when you got lost. She knew exactly why Ash had fallen in love with a place like Paradise.

      When they finally saw the sign for Lindsey Point, Jen lifted her hair from her shoulders and sighed. This is the real Paradise, you know. Water glimmered ahead.

      I know, Lucas agreed.

      She rolled the window halfway down and inhaled deeply. I love that smell.

      Of dead fish? Such a romantic.

      Of the ocean, stupid.

      He shook his head. Whatever does it for you.

      She studied him for a minute. He’d cut their speed from sixty on the highway to a rolling-along-without-a-care-in-the-world thirty-five on the two-lane road into town. A few cars passed them heading in the opposite direction, but as always when Jen came back to Lindsey Point, a distinct sense of safety and familiarity filled her. She knew she probably glamorized Lindsey Point, but she didn’t care. Magic could happen in a place like this. Magic, romance, and things her clinical, scientific brain usually didn’t give the time of day.

      You okay? she asked.

      Yeah. Why?

      I mean... Her hand flipped in the air. You know you’re gonna find someone else, right? Someone a hundred times better for you than Shannon.

      He ran a hand over his face and pulled his baseball cap down over his eyes. We’re talking about this again?

      I don’t want you to be sad.

      I’m not sad. I’m pissed off.

      That either.

      I find my fiancée in bed with another man and I’m not supposed to be pissed off?

      Of course you are. I just meant... Jen’s head fell back against the seat. She wasn’t sure what she meant, only that she hated seeing her little brother looking deflated, as if the last breath of fresh air and happiness had fled him months ago. There’s someone else out there for you.

      Lucas eased up to the stop sign at the edge of town. Main Street lay another mile ahead, and the Oakes’ family home another couple miles past that. "And I’m sure I’m going to find her right

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