Merritt and Her Childhood Crush

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I said I'd never set foot on Oakley Island again. Not so long as HE lives there. But after my life implodes I'm reconsidering EVERYTHING. Including my reasons for avoiding the first-and only-man I've ever loved.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm a high achiever. Driven. Maybe a little TOO driven.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So when my boyfriend confesses to cheating AND steals the promotion I've been working toward for years I do the unthinkable for someone like me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I break.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the timing couldn't be better for me to fall apart-I can escape to the idyllic Oakley Island and oversee the renovations on my late grandmother's estate.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There's just one tiny massive little problem: no one told me the contractor is the grown up version of the boy I fell in love with years ago.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He was my first love. My first kiss.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My first heartbreak.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now I'm faced with seeing Hunter daily. Being his boss. Forging a new dynamic that fits our adult selves.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hunter is bigger. Bearded. Talks in grunts rather than words.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And has just as much hold on me as he ever did.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Trouble is Hunter's life is on Oakley. His daughter is on Oakley. And it was never my plan to stay here permanently.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Do I really want to risk having my heart broken a second time? More importantly do I want to risk breaking his?</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Merritt and Her Childhood Crush is a second chance at childhood first love romantic comedy. The Oakley Island Romcoms follow three very different sisters as they renovate the house they inherited and find love on the island along the way. The stories are standalone but if you like continuous stories we recommend reading them in order. Each book is closed door with sizzling chemistry but no spice.</em></p><p></p>