Now she’s back, knocking Sawyer’s existence and heart off balance.
It didn’t help matters that Quinn left town without so much as a ‘goodbye’ to Sawyer. She and Quinn were close in high school, but then one day, Quinn does the unthinkable, and their friendship was ripped to shreds. She’s enjoyed a peaceful existence working at the family antique store and tinkering with old machines. Sawyer Kent has spent her whole life in Kingsford. The same girl who still lives in Kingsford and hasn’t left Quinn’s heart one day since she drove away. It’s the house related to the girl she left behind, Sawyer. Now a successful real estate agent in New York City, she’s brought back to Kingsford on behalf of a client who wants to buy a property as a wedding gift to his wife. But Quinn was desperate, so she sacrificed her heart in order to find the life she wanted to live. It was the hardest choice she had to make, leaving all she knew and the girl she secretly loved. Seventeen years ago, Quinn McKinley left the town of Kingsford, running from a life she didn’t want. I’m not sure why but this was my first book by Monica McCallan.Back In Your Arms by Monica McCallan is a second chance, friends-to-lovers romance that shows us the choices of our past don’t dictate our future. When Quinn moved to New York City from her hometown of Kingsford, she left everything and everyone behind: her depressed mother, her younger sister Kelly, her former best friend Sawyer who meant everything to her. Close to twenty years later, work brings her back to her hometown and a second chance at broken relationships.
In my book, this qualifies as a second chance romance, but it’s not completely accurate. While Quinn and Sawyer never were together before Quinn left Kingsford, they secretly pined for each other. I still want to add that trope to the childhood friends to lovers and return to hometown ones, since it’s got all my favourite ingredients. I’ve said this before, I love second chance romance novels because the chemistry is already existing. Maybe it needs to be awakened, rekindled, or maybe it’s still as strong. Despite everything that went on before Quinn left, despite the way she left, despite the hurt and misunderstandings, neither Quinn nor Sawyer can fight the attraction that blazes back as soon as they meet again. Monica McCallan makes all that pent-up lust, all the feelings both MCs fought as teens rush up to the surface in a way that makes them palpable to the reader.
It took a little while for me to warm up to Quinn, just as it did for Sawyer when Quinn comes back. Through Sawyer, I understood Quinn’s reasons for leaving, and from then on was all in. The shift from anger to lust on Sawyer’s part may feel a little rushed but I don’t care.
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