Come Tomorrow - Thompson, Tess

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Résumé :
One chance meeting. A single act of kindness. Can young soulmates find each other in adulthood, or will hidden truths tear them apart? Twelve-year-old Luci Quick never forgot the boy who saved her life that fateful Christmas Eve. But when he disappeared without a word after bringing her food, she was forced to focus on raising her baby sister when her mother suddenly died. Now six years later and struggling to make ends meet with an alcoholic and gambling-addicted father, the poverty-stricken woman can't believe her hero has returned... and he's all grown up. Wesley Ford's world changed after helping the girl who still haunts his dreams. When he was whisked away to boarding school at fourteen, he feared he'd never see her again. But now free to come back following his father's death, the wealthy heir is shocked to discover Luci and her sibling never escaped their rundown shack. With fate dealing her another opportunity for happiness, Luci seizes the day when an offer of help turns into an unexpected proposal. But before they can settle into their future, Wesley must face painful family secrets that could tear them apart forever. Can a Yuletide miracle make a wish for love come true? Come Tomorrow is the first book in the uplifting Castaway Christmas historical romance holiday series. If you like feel-good tear-jerkers, engaging characters, and sweet magical realism, then you'll adore Tess Thompson's Edwardian rags-to-riches story. Buy Come Tomorrow to follow the way home today!...

Biographie:
Tess Thompson is the USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author of contemporary and historical Romantic Women's Fiction with over 50 published titles. Her books are emotional and heartwarming with themes of second chances, redemption and the power love has to change lives and create community.She lives in the Pacific Northwest in a house on a small lake with her husband and kitties. Her four children are now young adults exploring their own paths and adventures, leaving an empty nest and a lot more time to write. She and her husband enjoy a quiet life, obsessed with birds and the other wildlife on their property, which makes them officially old. On any given day their yard could be visited by deer, bears, coyotes and squirrels.Most days, she can be found curled up in her favorite chair reading or in her office writing while keeping an eye out for hummingbirds in the feeder outside of her office....