About this book

Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At twenty-eight, he's focused only on walking in a straight line -- getting his teaching degree and avoiding all the places and people that proved destructive in his past. The last thing he's looking for is a relationship. But when Maria Sanchez, a hardworking lawyer and daughter of Mexican immigrants, crosses his path one rainswept night in North Carolina, the foundations of his carefully structured life are completely upended.

Subjects

  • adult children of immigrants
  • choice
  • choice (psychology)
  • fiction
  • fiction, romance, contemporary
  • general
  • happiness
  • homecoming
  • interpersonal attraction
  • large type books
  • man-woman relationship
  • man-woman relationships
  • man-woman relationships, fiction
  • mexican american families
  • mexican americans
  • new york times bestseller
  • nontraditional college students
  • north carolina, fiction
  • nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2015-11-01
  • secrecy
  • secrets
  • teachers
  • threats of violence
  • violence
  • women lawyers