The Long Way Back to You

by Thrill Reads · completed · 4.2★ (330 ratings) · Rebirth, Romance

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Junie Halloran left Ellery, Vermont at twenty-two with one suitcase and a bus ticket for two. Emmett Rourke never showed. Nine years later she is back for eleven weeks to bury her grandmother, settle a bakery, and prove to herself she is over it. Emmett is still on the same three hundred acres, still holding an orchard together with his hands, still not saying the thing he has never said. Then the will is read, and Junie learns her grandmother quietly bought the note on Rourke Orchard two years ago and told no one. She owns his debt now. Every tender hour between them is measured against a frost date and a number on a page. He will not ask her to stay. She will not ask him to come. And on the night it all ended, he was closer than she has ever known.

Chapters (50)

  1. Chapter 1: The Long Way Home
  2. Chapter 2: Four Hours to Heat
  3. Chapter 3: The Residency Clause
  4. Chapter 4: Three Hundred and Forty Acres
  5. Chapter 5: Polite
  6. Chapter 6: Bringing the Oven Up
  7. Chapter 7: A Life He Built On Purpose
  8. Chapter 8: The Kid From the Truck
  9. Chapter 9: The Widow
  10. Chapter 10: Copenhagen
  11. Chapter 11: Frost Warning
  12. Chapter 12: What Nell Bought
  13. Chapter 13: Eight Hundred Pounds of Paper
  14. Chapter 14: Rack and Cloth
  15. Chapter 15: I Did Come
  16. Chapter 16: Two Hours and Twenty Minutes (premium)
  17. Chapter 17: Ask Me in November (premium)
  18. Chapter 18: The Rhythm of It (premium)
  19. Chapter 19: Do Not Tell Him (premium)
  20. Chapter 20: The Grange (premium)
  21. Chapter 21: Ask Him (premium)
  22. Chapter 22: The Visor (premium)
  23. Chapter 23: That Autumn (premium)
  24. Chapter 24: The Mill Office (premium)
  25. Chapter 25: Almost, Both of Them (premium)
  26. Chapter 26: Face Down (premium)
  27. Chapter 27: A Man in Boston (premium)
  28. Chapter 28: The North Block (premium)
  29. Chapter 29: Friday (premium)
  30. Chapter 30: Nine Septembers (premium)
  31. Chapter 31: Almost (premium)
  32. Chapter 32: Anonymous (premium)
  33. Chapter 33: The Truck Under the Maples (premium)
  34. Chapter 34: Everything True (premium)
  35. Chapter 35: The Widow Comes Down (premium)
  36. Chapter 36: 8 November (premium)
  37. Chapter 37: The Only One Who Thinks That (premium)
  38. Chapter 38: Excellent and Hollow (premium)
  39. Chapter 39: Four Letters (premium)
  40. Chapter 40: The Word (premium)
  41. Chapter 41: What She Actually Wants (premium)
  42. Chapter 42: Nell's Letter (premium)
  43. Chapter 43: 14 December (premium)
  44. Chapter 44: Ask Me (premium)
  45. Chapter 45: Forty Shares (premium)
  46. Chapter 46: Seven Days (premium)
  47. Chapter 47: All of It (premium)
  48. Chapter 48: Yes, and Thirty Thousand Short (premium)
  49. Chapter 49: One Contribution at a Time (premium)
  50. Chapter 50: The Long Way Back (premium)

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