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When your teenage best friend returns to town as a pro football star, suddenly you can't hide from the mistakes that shattered your friendship—or the feelings you never quite buried. Jake Pierce was everything to her once: her person, her confidant, the boy whose heart she broke without ever meaning to. Now he's back in Massachusetts, playing for the Boston Bluecoats, and she's face-to-face with the unfinished business between them and the possibility of a second chance neither of them saw coming. This is the kind of small-town reunion story where past and present collide in the most delicious way, full of complicated history and the electric promise of finally getting it right.
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