Love in a Small Town

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All Olivia wants for her birthday is a one-way ticket out of town...</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rafe Minelli knows he won't get a second chance with his ex-wife. The demands of his double career-as a police officer and military reservist-were a dealbreaker when they were together. And he's thrilled for her when she lands a new job with a film company but it comes with a deadline: when she finishes this project she's leaving town for good.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Olivia has no reason to stay in Rafe's tiny hometown where the only job she could find was waiting tables in the local diner. But she couldn't move on until she figured out what she wanted next in life. Now she's been tasked with the unlikely role of ambassador for a town that has done nothing but break her heart and discovering unexpected surprises at every turn.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They aren't the same young kids who rushed into marriage the first time. But as summer slides into fall Rafe sets out to prove he's a changed man before he loses her forever.</span></p><p></p><p>***</p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a third edition revised into first person POV in 2025; the second edition was revised and expanded in 2020; the first edition was published in 2014.</em></p><p></p>