Title: Following Maggie

Series: Coming Home Series

Author: Melanie Moreland

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 7, 2022

A snowstorm, an unexpected delay, and a caring stranger are all it takes for Sebastian Ruggers to change the course of his life.

Instead of pushing paper and living a life he dreads, he follows his heart and the girl he meets to a new city.

A different life.

Maggie Andrews is heading back to the only town that ever felt like home.

When she meets Sebastian, somehow she knows, together, they’ll find a life together sweeter than the ones they are leaving behind. She can help him find his future. He can be the person she needs.

They only have to say yes.

Sometimes you discover home isn’t only a location on a map—but the person you share it with.

Caroline's Review
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My heart is full! Loved everything about this story.

"I can't let you go. Even though I should, I can't."

Maggie Andrews and Sebastian Ruggers are both stranded at the airport due to the weather. The hours they spend together are about instant connection, undeniable attraction, and the warmest feeling of coming home. A life-changing, lastminute decision has Sebastian following Maggie home to a little town, and forging a new future together, as well as making some surprising discoveries.

"You want roots, I want to belong to someone. We can be there for each other. Each other's home."

This story was like the thickest, cosiest blanket on a cold winter's day. Maggie and Sebastian were sexy, adorable, sweet, and just made my heart feel all kinds of squishy! I loved them so much! I loved their rapport, their devotion to each other, the way they just fitted together, the way the town welcomed them both, and they way they found their niche in the local community. Just a fabulous, all-round, feel-good, heartwarming read!

I kept her hand in mine and watched her, my mind going as fast as the plane we were in. The more the miles flew by, the more the ache in my chest grew. Maggie would walk away from me soon, and I’d never see her again. I’d head to BC and the life my father insisted I had to live, and she would make her own way in the small town, hundreds of miles away from me.

I would go to an apartment I’d never seen and live there. My father would make sure it was decent and I had what I needed to live. Maggie would go to her little house and try to fix it up and make a life for herself. She would struggle to make ends meet and fight to hold on to the place she thought of as home. My father’s plan would enable me to live well, but it wouldn’t feel like home. Like my life.

Both of us would struggle for different reasons.

Both of us surrounded by people, yet alone.

I’d always felt alone—except for the past few hours. With Maggie beside me, I hadn’t felt that way. For the first time in my life since my mother died, I felt as though I was complete again—as if I mattered.

I mattered to Maggie.

She mattered to me.

If we were together, things would be different. If I chose differently, both our lives could change.

Thoughts, ideas, and images began taking shape in my head.

If I changed my mind.

If I asked Maggie to let me go with her. Not to visit, but to stay.

When you want a bit of naughty along with the nice. From NYT Best Selling Author M Moreland are complete standalone reads with one thing in common - lots of sweetness and a guaranteed HEA. Instant attraction, little angst - love and happiness abounds.

While addicted to coffee, and challenged with computer-related and technical thing, she relishes cooking. She loves to throw dinner parties, and also enjoys traveling, but finds coming home is always the best part of a trip.

Melanie loves stories, especially paired with wine. She's learned happily ever afters, even bumpy ones, are all in how you tell the story.