Books by Georgia Bockoven

From the author of Things Remembered and The Year Everything Changed comes a moving novel about love that lasts foreverWhats in the past is over and done with . . . or is it? Sixteen years ago Carly Hargrove made a decision that would irrevocably alter her life. With little comprehension of the life-long consequences of her actions, she trades her own future happiness to protect the man shes loved since kindergarten, David Montgomery.With an ocean separating them, Carly builds a life for herself without David. Shes the mother of three, lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a man who comes home every nighteven if most of those nights he drinks too much. What more could she want?Her answer arrives on a cold fall day when David shows up at her door. In town for his fathers funeral, he has come to see Carly one last time, hoping to rid himself of the anger that still consumes him.Instead, he is drawn into a web of secrets that rekindles the fierce need he once felt to protect Carly. He becomes caught up in her life in a way he never could have imagineda way that will bind him to her forever.

Unlock the door to the beach house . . . a place where life slows down, people come together, and love is the strongest force of all.Fourteen years ago, teenage Melinda Campbell was pregnant and terrified. Desperate to do what's best for her precious child, Melinda makes the most generous, heart-wrenching choice of all: adoption. Now she's living a successful life but missing her daughter with a longing that shadows every joy.Jeremy Richmond's life revolves around his adopted daughter, Shiloh, the girl who's owned his heart from the moment he first held her as an infant. They were a picture-perfect family until Jeremy's wife walked out, unable to face the specter of the chronic illness holding their daughter in its grasp.Then Shiloh tells her father she wants to meet her biological mother, and Jeremy agrees to find a woman he has no desire to meet.Now Melinda and Jeremy are brought together at the beach house, and they quickly realize their worlds will never be the same again. Will the beach house that has harbored troubled hearts for decades prove to be the balm they need to heal?