Stephanie L. Smith

               Lexi left the only town that she had ever known and headed to The Big Apple. Fueled by heartbreak and longing, she headed out into the world to prove to herself that she wasn’t as broken as she felt, that life could go on.

               Ten Years Later…

               With four year old Jax in tow, Lexi left New York and the husband who wanted nothing to do with them and headed for the one place she never thought she would return; home. After a failed marriage and a move across the country, Lexi was spent. She couldn’t imagine dealing with another thing, much less the one person who had destroyed her all those years ago, but there he was standing on her parents driveway.

               Cole Fulton had been the love of her life, she was sure that they were going to spend the rest of their lives together, just as soon as he returned from the Army. That all changed when he sent her a letter about reenlisting. She had written back in anger, telling him that she wanted him to come home. She knew that the language she had used would make a sailor blush, and she had a good feeling he would be furious, but she never in a million years thought that he would leave her. But he did. He stopped responding to her letters, he stopped calling, he just cut her out of his life completely. It had destroyed her. It took her years to build herself back up and even then there was a piece of her heart that never healed.

               Sparks fly when Lexi finds out that not only does Cole live here, but her job at the orchard will leave her working side by side with him. When Lexi loses her temper and lashes out at her parents and Cole, he doesn’t hesitate to follow her and teach her a lesson in respect the old-fashioned way. With a scorched bottom, Lexi finally sits down with the man who broke her heart and rehashes the past, and learns that there are definitely two sides to every story.

This is a novella of about 12k, and is part 1 in a 4 part series. All installments will be available in a bundle after the final installment is released.

Notice: This novella contains domestic discipline including the spanking of adult women. If such material offends you, please do not buy this novella.