Release Day Review: Return to Us (Willow Creek Valley #1) By Corinne Michaels

 

 Return to Us by Corinne Michaels is now live!

 From New York Times Bestselling author Corinne Michaels comes a new second chance standalone love story.

At eighteen, I walked away from Willow Creek Valley for good.

I was young, scared, and stupid, and it cost me the love of my life—Grayson Parkerson.

Fourteen years later, a crash sends me back home to recover.

Back to where we met, fell in love, and planned a future.

The one he’s now living as a single dad to his daughter.

Working at The Park Inn together gives us a chance to reconnect, and seeing him with his little girl makes me long for the days when he was mine. One look in his gorgeous blue-green eyes, and it’s like I never left. One kiss, and my world is upside down. One night together, and I know without a doubt, in his arms is where I belong.

I’m not the girl I was—intimidated by his wealthy family and desperate to escape our small town. I can imagine a new life for us here.

But he’s learned to guard his heart, and trust won’t come easily.

How can I convince him to give first love a second chance?

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 What I thought about Return To Us

In this first installment in the new Willow Creek Valley series, Corinne Michaels begins the story with a character readers met in the last book in the recently completed Arrowood series. 

Jessica survived the plane crash but is struggling with a traumatic brain injury. She's back in her childhood hometown -- a place she thought she would never return to when she walked away from her high school sweetheart to pursue her dream of getting out of Willow Creek Valley.

Years later, she's home and dreading the fact she might run into the only man she's ever loved -- Grayson Parkerson. The town is small and she is friends with his sister, so it's only a matter of time before they see each other. 

Grayson was devastated when Jessica broke it off with him, dashing their plans for a future together. I really can't say that I blame her for what she did -- Grayson's parents are awful, there's no other way to say it. It doesn't take long for the spark left between them to reignite but both are very hesitant to give their hearts away a second time. Grayson knows Jessica isn't going to stay in Willow Creek once she's cleared to fly, so he's trying to protect his heart. He does some stupid stuff that could end up having devastating unintended consequences.

 I devoured this story.  Jessica's story of recovery after her illness is fascinating and I really liked how that part of the story was presented. Her friends Delia and Stella are awesome too, and I liked her maturity in dealing with her feelings toward Grayson, his family and Willow Creek.

Grayson was a little harder for me to like, especially with some of his reactions toward the end of the story. However, I did like this second chance romance especially since it was very clear that these two still loved and were in love with each other, even though they had things to work out. Grayson's daughter is a sweetheart too.

Return to Us is a great start to this new series!  It has everything that you expect from a Corinne Michaels story. Love and heart and family -- with a little angst thrown in there for good measure. 

A complementary copy was provided. This is my honest review. 

Meet Corinne

Corinne Michaels is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of romance novels. Her stories are chock full of emotion, humor, and unrelenting love, and she enjoys putting her characters through intense heartbreak before finding a way to heal them through their struggles.

Corinne is a former Navy wife and happily married to the man of her dreams. She began her writing career after spending months away from her husband while he was deployed--reading and writing were her escapes from the loneliness. Corinne now lives in Virginia with her husband and is the emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun-loving mom of two beautiful children.

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