A Family Affair: The Return: A Small Town Family Saga

Book 13: Truth In Lies

by Mary Campisi

Synopsis

Magdalena, New York

Home of memories long buried, steamy nights, and one regrettable summer...

Grace Romano had been seventeen, impressionable, innocent to the power of attraction and desire.

Max Ruhland taught her about both. He loved Grace and thought they had a future together, until she crushed his heart and told him he wasn't part of her life plan.

Twenty-two years later, Grace Romano Clarke is a widow with two children and a pile of broken dreams. When her aunt dies, she must return to Magdalena, the town she'd rather forget, to honor the woman's last wishes: stay in her house for thirty days, and complete a list that, according to her aunt, will reveal a bit about life and maybe reveal something about herself, too. What Grace doesn't know but will find out soon enough is that Max Ruhland must stay in the house with her and help complete the list!

Max Ruhland isn't the same lovesick puppy from the wrong side of the tracks who had his heart broken all those years ago. He's a wealthy, successful businessman who owes his good fortune to Grace's aunt, the woman who never gave up on him. Max can have any woman he wants, but he's never forgotten Grace, or how she hurt him. Now he'll have to spend the next thirty days with her—in close quarters—to honor her aunt's last wishes, and he's not looking forward to it.

It's going to get very interesting as the town watches and wonders what's going on between those two. Of course, Pop Benito understands exactly what's happening in the house on Bayberry Street, even if Max and Grace don't. He's the one who helped Grace's aunt create the thirty-day list, which he insists will finally get this couple their happily-ever-after!

BONUS MATERIAL: Included in this e-book is the first chapter of Strangers Like Us, Book 1 in the Reunion Gap series.

"If you love books that make you laugh, smile, cry, and sigh, then Mary Campisi is the author for you.” – USA Today bestselling author, Julianne MacLean

Truth in Lies Series:
Book One: A Family Affair
Book Two: A Family Affair: Spring
Book Three: A Family Affair: Summer
Book Four: A Family Affair: Fall
Book Five: A Family Affair: Christmas, a novella
Book Six: A Family Affair: Winter
Book Seven: A Family Affair: The Promise
Book Eight: A Family Affair: The Secret
Book Nine: A Family Affair: The Wish
Book Ten: A Family Affair: The Gift
Book Eleven: A Family Affair: The Weddings, a novella
Book Twelve: A Family Affair: The Cabin, a novella
Book Thirteen: A Family Affair: The Return
Book Fourteen: A Family Affair: The Choice
Book Fifteen: A Family Affair: The Proposal
Book Sixteen: A Family Affair: Bonus Scenes
Book Seventeen: A Family Affair: The Homecoming
Book Eighteen: A Family Affair: The Decision
Book Nineteen: A Family Affair: The Journey
Book Twenty: A Family Affair: The List
also: A Family Affair Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
and Meals From Magdalena: A Family Affair Cookbook

Release date: August 29, 2017

Publisher: Mary Campisi Books, LLC

Print pages: 224