Nine years ago, Emery Saunders moved to Hartwell to start her life over as a bookstore owner. Her inability to trust people made it hard for her to find a place in the small community until Jessica Lawson moved to town and befriended the shy beauty.
But there was one person in Hartwell who tried to befriend Emery long before Jessica arrived…
Jack Devlin has his secrets. One of them is that he fell hard for Emery the moment she appeared in Hartwell. Another is that his father blackmailed him into covering up a dark family tragedy. It forced Jack to sever his relationships to protect the people he cared about. Yet, staying away from Emery has not been easy throughout the years and he hasn’t always succeeded. When Jack’s mixed signals hurt Emery once again, she puts him out of her heart for good.
Until the Devlin family secret is finally revealed, freeing Jack from his father’s machinations. What Jack wants more than anything is to repair his relationships, starting with Emery.
However, Emery isn’t ready to forgive and Jack’s not ready to give up.
And when the town’s latest scandal ties Jack and Emery together, Jack is not above using their new reality to prove to Emery once and for all that their love is worthy of the legend of Hart’s Boardwalk.
Is this the end of the boardwalk?! If it is ,and it sounded like it was, it was a perfectly sweet ending. There were many loose ends tied up and all of my beloved characters were seen here. This is an epic second chance novel. I had no idea the true history of Emory and Jack and while we do spend some time being caught up to speed and going back in the past, don’t worry, there’s plenty of time in the present. Jack is an anti-hero that I adore because he’s actually not an anti-hero. For all surface purposes, he’s the evil con doing his father’s dirty work but there’s plenty of secrets that Jack is holding. I was especially rooting for Emory to find herself and her confidence and how that develops was exactly what I was hoping for. Emory and Jack together was the perfect blend of slow and fast. Once they came together, the pages were on fire!