When We Touch

Emily and Lucas’s story begins in When You Came Back and continues here.I’m calling it my lazy girl summer.I’ve given up my one room in a shared Boston apartment and moved temporarily to Seabright, where I’m house-sitting a beautiful home with a pool, adorable dogs to look after and, for the moment, nowhere else I have to be.Well, except for the job applications I keep sending out. And some freelance writing. And the cookbook I’ve agreed to write with Lucas.He apparently thought I was going to cook his recipes while he sent instructions from wherever in the world Lucas McNichol happens to be.No.He’s the chef. Here. In Seabright.We shop for ingredients together. He cooks. I taste, take notes, style the food and photograph it. Sometimes I help. Sometimes I get him out of the kitchen altogether to walk the dogs, go to the beach, even escape to Boston for a while.Then he rushes back to the airport.Lucas has restaurants, food courts, business problems and commitments that keep pulling him away. I have a summer in Seabright and no idea where I’ll be living or working when it ends.Somewhere between the cooking and the tasting, the long days together and Lucas dashing out the door again, something changes between us.But summer never lasts forever.Contemporary women’s fiction about careers, relationships, family and the choices that shape a life. Perfect for readers of Katherine Center and Annabel Monaghan.