After The Walk Home

She knows him as her best friend's ex-husband. After tonight, that won't be enough.

Nina Ward has spent years seeing Adam Reed across other people's dinner tables. Then he walks her home along the Seabridge seafront, past her turning and on towards his, and neither of them wants to say goodnight.

When he asks her out, Nina says yes. But first she has to tell Leah.

Her oldest friend doesn't want Adam back. She does want some distance from hearing about him-and suddenly Nina has no one to tell about the man who makes her laugh, notices when she's tired, and reads the last page of a novel first.

With Adam, she can imagine a life beyond Friday-night marking and a second armchair nobody uses. Until a joke at dinner leaves her hurt, and his easy apologies begin to sound like a way of ending the conversation.

Nina knows how his marriage ended. She also knows exactly what to say when she wants to win an argument. If they're going to build something together, both of them will have to risk being harder to love.

After the Walk Home is a standalone clean contemporary romance set on the Dorset coast, with dry humour, kisses only, and a happily ever after.