Seabright Novels - Emily & Lucas

“So why don’t you grab a flight out in a few days? I’ll be in Chicago. Easy flight from Boston,” he says.

Because I can’t. I also can’t tell him – or anyone – why.

So maybe he isn’t the only one with secrets.

Thirteen years ago, Lucas walked away. Now he’s a celebrity chef at the top of his game, and Emily is a food writer who just lost her dream...

He kissed her and walked away. Why should she trust him now?

“And that’s all she is? Just a friend?”
“Not ‘just’ a friend.”
“That’s what I thought. Tell that to your 17-year-old self. He’d just laugh and say, ‘Man, what’s the hold-up?’”
“Real life. Different choices. I had to leave. For whatever reason, she had to stay. We grew up. We’re different...

“That’s rough. I’m so sorry,” I say. No I’m not, but I’m trying to be Mr. Sensitive here.

Did you love him, I long to ask. Were you in love with him? Are you still? It’s as if I’m jealous, which is ridiculous. But I have to know.

Working side-by-side to create Lucas’s passion project has brought them back into the kitchen to cook, laugh, and love...

“You’ve told her what to expect?”
“What to expect? No. And I don’t intend to. She might never know.”

They both look at me as if I’ve just suggested something completely stupid.

A Christmas in Umbria was supposed to be a dream. Instead, it becomes a test of everything they’ve built. While Lucas is pulled back to the relentless work pressures of New...

“I have to tell her. I just don’t know how I’m going to be able to face the future without her.”

Coming home was supposed to be their new beginning. It might be their biggest challenge yet. Returning from Italy, Emily expects a happy, settled future with Lucas in the quiet and beautiful countryside of New Hampshire not far from where they both...