The Price of Love: A New Love

By Cynthia Hickey

Melanie (Mellie) Brooks had lived in the small town of Cumberton Heights her whole life, even after the boy-next-door, her best friend, left town after the town's most sought-after young woman broke his heart. But now, Devon Sawyer had returned as a best-selling author and town celebrity, to remind her of a long-ago promise made when they were kids.

Devon Sawyer couldn't believe how beautiful pudgy Mellie Brooks had grown up to be. Right away he's thrust back into the happiest days of his life, until a certain woman sets her eye on him and threatens to ruin the very thing Devon hadn't known he'd missed. While he tries to woo Mellie back after a careless mistake, danger follows, thrusting them all into a disastrous showdown.

Can Devon and Mellie recapture what they once had or were lost dreams the price of love?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cynthia Hickey
• Release date: Jul 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201691738

Cynthia Hickey

Multi-published and best-selling author, Cynthia Hickey, has taught writing at many conferences and small writing retreats. She and her husband run the publishing press, Winged Publications, which includes some of the CBA's best well-known authors. They live in Arizona and Arkansas, becoming snowbirds with two dogs and one cat. They have ten grandchildren who them busy and tell everyone they know that "Nana is a writer."   

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