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<p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ella only gets one vacation from her little shop in Portland each year. And this year she'd like to fall in love. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jaques the mysterious Frenchman she meets on St. Barts has the same idea. He sees her on the beach and then follows her around Saint Barts until he finds her again and sits next to her at a seaside bar where he strikes up a conversation. Using a French accent because he's been speaking French for the last six months he doesn't think he is misleading Ella. In fact he plans to tell her that he is an American. It is all passion red bikinis and lots of rum cocktails until his mother calls with news that he must go home. To Ella he simply disappears without a word.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Little does she know that he did leave a message with the concierge at his hotel which explained everything. But the man pocketed the money Jaques gave him and tossed the letter.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Twenty months later Jack Brewster still heartbroken over the mysterious Ella who never called him after he had to leave Saint Barts in a hurry decides to talk to the shop owners who need to vacate their shops so that his family's new hospital wing in downtown Portland can occupy the same space in honor of his brother who fell off Mount Hood twenty months earlier.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He first visits the little shop named Marcella's. But when he gets a look at Marcella and the baby in her arms which is the spitting image of him as a child his life spins out of control.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And when Marcella gets a look at the man who walked away from her the Eminent Domain lawsuit she is fighting no longer seems like it will be her largest battle.</span></p><p></p>