Return to You by Samantha Chase Published by Sourcebooks, Inc. on 2015-03-03
Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance
Pages: 352
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He can't stop thinking about their future...
James Montgomery has achieved everything he'd hoped for in life...except marrying the girl of his dreams. After a terrible accident, Selena Ainsley left ten years ago. She took his heart with her and she's never coming back. But it's becoming harder and harder for him to forget their precious time together, and James can't help but wonder what he would do if they could ever meet again.
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Selena didn’t remember moving but suddenly found herself toe-to-toe with James, almost chest to chest. She looked up into his brown eyes, and it was as if ten years had suddenly disappeared; in front of her wasn’t the present–day man, but the boy she had fallen in love with. Lines became blurred; past and present seemed to collide.
Her heart beat erratically in her chest and her breath caught in her throat. Against her chest, she could feel his heart beating just as rapidly. His gaze met hers: heated, narrowed. Selena swallowed hard and licked her lips. His face mesmerized her—-it always had. Her fingers itched to reach out and touch it, to feel the rough stubble on his jaw, to trace the soft fullness of his lips. Her body trembled with the need she felt and with the restraint she was forced to have. It wasn’t fair that she still responded so strongly to him.
And that she couldn’t act on it.
Or shouldn’t act on it.
Or…
The broom dropped to the floor. “Damn you,” he muttered before lowering his head and crushing his mouth to hers. It wasn’t a kiss of reacquaintance. He poured ten years of anger and frustration into it, and he was surprised when Selena didn’t put up a struggle. One of his hands reached up and tangled into her hair, anchoring her to him while she grabbed fistfuls of his shirt in her own haste to keep him close.
All James could think about was how one taste, one impulsive moment, wasn’t going to be enough. He would have been fine if she had been outraged or if she had tried to push him away. The fact that she seemed just as crazed at the moment as he was spurred him on in a completely different way.
Taking a step forward, he tried to back her against the nearest wall. Glass crunched under their feet as they moved, and Selena whimpered with need when her hip bumped into the countertop. He wanted to haul her up on top of it, to step between her legs and pull her snugly against him. His hands moved from her hair to her jaw and lower, to skim down her hips, when he heard Jen’s voice and the front door open. He pushed Selena away as if she’d burned him.
Which she had.
About the Author
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller/contemporary romance writer Samantha Chase released her debut novel, Jordan’s Return, in November 2011. Although she waited until she was in her 40’s to publish for the first time, writing has been a lifelong passion. Her motivation to take that step was her students: teaching creative writing to elementary age students all the way up through high school and encouraging those students to follow their writing dreams gave Samantha the confidence to take that step as well.
When she’s not working on a new story, she spends her time reading contemporary romances, playing way too many games of Scrabble or Solitaire on Facebook and spending time with her husband of 25 years and their two sons in North Carolina.
Honestly? There isn’t anyone I’d want to reunite with. I’m in touch with my childhood friends and I’m very happy with my husband.
I can’t think of anyone I would want to reunite with.
In my case it would not be wise to do it but I love it when someone does that and it all works out well 🙂
I’m gonna go back to my hometown too and I wanted too reunite with my childhood crush.
At the moment there isn’t anyone I’d want to reunite with.
Thank you so much for sharing this! Your blog is adorable!
there’s no one from my past I want to reunite with.
Well, I don’t really want to return to the Los Angeles area, but I’d like to return to my old boyfrriend…find him anyway. Too common of a name to find him.
Nope, not a single person I want to reunite with. They are exs for a reason.
I never left, so I couldn’t return. There are a couple of young guys I really liked who moved away that I would like to catch up with, just to see how they are and what they have been up to.
I don’t have anyone in my past I would want to reunite with but if I could return to any of the places I lived it would be Renton,WA
There is one guy that I’d love to seek out now and see where things could go.
There isn’t anyone I want to reunite with.
No-one i am happily married to my husband since 1996.
I’d like to reunite with some of my old friends from high school.
I wouldn’t go back. I am happy with my life just as it is.
I would go back to my first true love because I am not a young girl of 18 just starting the rest of her life. I know me and what I am capable of when it comes to my mind.
There isn’t anyone that I would want to return to, and even though I go back to visit I wouldn’t want to return to my home town for good.
it might be fun to meet up with some friends from high school
I would never leave
There isn’t really a person to reunite with, but it would be fun to go back and see our old house.
I can’t think of anyone from my past I’d rather be with than my husband. I keep in touch with all my friends I’m interested in doing so.
Thanks for the Chance!
Nobody from where I hail from! I want to meet and be with someone out of my home town!
My friends in Florida!
Don’t know since I haven’t left yet..
I really thought about that and there is no one. I felt absolutely blessed to be with the man that I am with. His heart, his love, his everything is perfect for me. We are a perfect match.
Some friends from high school and college; that is about it.
I am where I have always been. There is no place for me to go back too. As for reuniting with anyone I think It would have to be my late grandfather. Everyone alive who is important to me is still in my life. No reunion necessary. Im pretty lucky like that. No regrets.
I think it would be interesting to go back to my hometown and visit with my first love (if he even still lives there) to find out where life took him,who he married,etc.
he’s not in our hometown at the moment, we’re staying in the same city for college right now 🙂
I have been married to my first love for over 20 years, so I don’t think I would go back.
I would reunite with my first love too wherever he is.
I would like to return to Western PA and reunite with my grandmother.
I would go to my home town and hang out with my old friend there. We always had so much fun when we lived there just doing simple things like riding out bikes those were fun times.
I’m happy with where I am in life including who I’m married to!!
I don’t have anyone in my past I would want to reunite with.
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I still live in my hometown. 🙂 I guess I would reunite with my mother, as she lives in a different town now and we aren’t as close as we were before – we don’t see each other very often.
Hello Samantha, Return to You sounds like a wonderful romance. All the best to you.
I live in my hometown and there isn’t anyone I would reunite with. I’m still friends with everyone I went to school with and there isn’t any past boyfriends that I want to see.
There isn’t a place or person I’d like to reunite with, but I love stories that have this theme!
I would like to return to my childhood hometown, just for a visit & reunite with kids I grew up with.
I’m right where I need to be…would not go back.
Gosh, there are so many that it would be hard to choose but I think back to when I had 2 different men that both asked me to marry them. I was so not expecting that and the really weird is that the rings were both in the pea shaped look that was very strange.
I am very confident that I choose the best man but I do wonder what would have been the deal breaker if I had married him and how long would it have taken for him to ask for a divorce.
Left and came back. Didn’t reunite but remain friends.
theres no where i need to return to.and no one i want to reunite with
Yay! Thanks for doing this 🙂 I’m still in my hometown, so I guess this question doesn’t resonate with me hahah. Maybe someday, though 🙂
I really never left anyone, anywhere! So there’s nowhere I want to return to! 🙂
For me it would have to be my best friend from childhood. I haven’t seen her in 4th grade. I’ve been searching on FB for her, but there are too many people with her name. Also, I’d like to revisit my a certain EX. I’d like for him to see me for who I am now.
I wouldn’t want to return, I am happy.
I actually still live in my hometown and I can not think of anyone from my past I would want to reunite with. I am looking forward to reading this book. I am currently reading the other Montgomery Brothers stories and just got to Mac’s story:)
id return to my hometown this summer for our 30 year reunion for high school. But I’m in Texas and that is on Maui so a no go… Would love to connect I person to people I’ve reconnected with on FB
I’d reunite with a boy that has made me feel happy for the first time. Something went wrong, But I MISS HIM.
I think the concept of returning to your hometown and rediscovering an old flame sounds deliciously romantic. Alas, all mine are taken!
Hmm. I think it’d be nice to return to Silicon Valley. I interned in the area one summer and met this awesome guy/was a shameless flirt (so was he, all’s fair in love and war!) I was in one of those weird “I don’t know if we’re dating” situations with a guy back at college, so nothing happened. Kinda regret that. It’d be nice to run into him down there (he’s somewhere else for graduate school now) and get another shot!
I would love to return to mexico but other than my boyfriend (whom I have never been to mexico with) I can’t think of anyone I would want to be with
Childhood friends with whom I have a lot of great memories with 🙂
I would want to return to the town I grew up in so I could raise my daughter there. I would love for her to go to the same schools that I did and possibly have some of the same teachers.
To be honest I am not big on revisiting my own past.. I think I would leave well enough alone
i love present
In my highschool years
There are some old friends I miss so much… love to get in touch!
I am great where I am now. I wouldn’t go back to anywhere or anyone.
This is definitely not in my character to return home or reunite with someone else.Maybe that’s the reason I find this so intriguing when someone else does this.
I would go back to jr.high. school and reunite with my first real boyfriend. Although I would definitely do things very different.. lol