Emi Hilton is a California native who was born at March Air Force Base, to an Officer in the US Army Combat Engineer Battalion father and an English Professor mother. Emi followed in her mother’s footsteps and graduated from Brigham Young University in English. While in college, she took a year and a half break from her studies to serve as a full-time missionary for her church in the Canary Islands. Emi writes sweet contemporary romance novels. Her debut novel, Memories in Morro Bay, was nominated for a Whitney Award. When Emi isn’t writing, she enjoys training for marathons, fishing off local piers with her husband and three sons, or visiting her other love, Spain.
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A return home and another chance to start new
Claire returns to her hometown of Pismo Beach, after the sudden passing of her mom, to care for her fourteen-year-old sister, Alexis. Claire has less than three months to pack up and sell her mom’s house and bring Alexis back to Los Angeles. Love and romance are the last things on Claire’s mind. But at Alexis’s orthodontist’s appointment, Claire meets Dr. David Clark. David is a divorcee of three years, who hasn’t moved on since his wife left him. And David has zero intention of giving love a second chance until he meets Claire, the woman from out of town who isn’t sticking around. Though Claire won’t be in Pismo Beach long term, they decide to throw caution to the wind and date. They are on the fast track to relationship perfection, but David's past threatens everything. And Claire can't stay. Can they find a way to move past the challenges of grief, overcome past mistakes, and find a way to their happily ever after?
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A weekend at a high school reunion
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