When You Came Back

By Jacquelyn Johnson

I loved my magazine job enough to take less money, work fewer paid hours and put in plenty of unpaid ones just to keep both of them, the job and the magazine, alive.

Then just a week before my best friend's wedding I lost them both.

In the city I love, no job soon means no apartment. Then, for me, no Boston. But I don't have much time to figure out what comes next. I'm the Woman of Honor at the wedding. Best Man is Lucas McNichol.

I haven't seen him for years.

Lucas was my best friend in high school. The boy who suddenly left without an explanation.

He's done pretty good since then. He owns restaurants. And two Italian food courts. And, I've heard, a few other businesses. He's done popular TV cooking series and is always in the news.

At the wedding, he tells me he has a new project: a cookbook whose proceeds will help young people who need a way into the profession.

Lucas wants me to ghostwrite it.

I've never written a cookbook.

More to the point, I'm a lifestyle writer. My name goes on my work. Losing my job doesn't make me desperate enough to disappear behind his.

So I say no.

Lucas turns on the charm.

And I give him a condition I'm certain he'll never agree to.

The trouble with Lucas is that I used to know him better than anyone. At least I thought I did.

Now I'm beginning to wonder what else I might have been wrong about.

Contemporary women's fiction about careers, relationships, family and the choices that shape a life. Perfect for readers of Katherine Center and Annabel Monaghan.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1990887996
• ISBN13: 9781990887994
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Crimson Hill Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"