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A Small Town, First love, Standalone Novella<\/b><\/p>\n
Her first job, her first flat. But is she heading for her first broken heart?<\/strong> Join Sarah and Clance as they navigate the roller coaster ride of first love and the road to becoming independent.<\/p>\n This is an introduction to Tempest Beach and is told mainly from Sarah’s point of view, except when Clance couldn’t be kept quiet! Found family, swoony heroes, and a HEA guaranteed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n You can download and read this book for FREE when you join my newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_cta][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can download and read this book for FREE when you join my newsletter!A Small Town, First love, Standalone Novella Her first job, her first flat. But is she heading for her first broken heart?Shy country girl Sarah moves to the small town, Tempest Beach, to start her first job. When the girls from work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[],"project_tag":[10],"class_list":["post-178","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_tag-tempest-beach"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/178\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracybrenton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Shy country girl Sarah moves to the small town, Tempest Beach, to start her first job. When the girls from work take her out for Friday night drinks after a horrendous first week she meets Clance, who seems too good to be true.
She\u2019s looking for independence not love, so why is she finding him so hard to avoid?
Escaping the family farm, not wanting to follow in his fathers, and grandfathers, same boring footsteps, Clance moves to Tempest Beach, where he works two jobs and puts himself through University. Finally independent, he meets the girl he thinks might be ‘the one’ when he is called back home for a family emergency.
Will he give up his dreams and go back to the life he only ever wanted to escape from?<\/p>\n