Carly's Gift - by Georgia Bockoven (Paperback)

About the Book

"Previously published under the title The way it should have been in 1993 by HarperTorch"--T.p. verso.

From the Back Cover

From the author of Things Remembered and The Year Everything Changed comes a moving novel about love that lasts forever

What's in the past is over and done with . . . or is it?

Sixteen years ago Carly Hargrove made a decision that would irrevocably alter her life. With little comprehension of the life-long consequences of her actions, she trades her own future happiness to protect the man she's loved since kindergarten, David Montgomery.

With an ocean separating them, Carly builds a life for herself without David. She's the mother of three, lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a man who comes home every night--even if most of those nights he drinks too much. What more could she want?

Her answer arrives on a cold fall day when David shows up at her door. In town for his father's funeral, he has come to see Carly one last time, hoping to rid himself of the anger that still consumes him.

Instead, he is drawn into a web of secrets that rekindles the fierce need he once felt to protect Carly. He becomes caught up in her life in a way he never could have imagined--a way that will bind him to her forever.

Review Quotes

"Bockoven's well-charted heartwrencher is sensitively depicted and thought-provoking." - Publishers Weekly, on An Unspoken Promise
"Georgia Bockoven knows the secret to stirring readers' feelings." - Sacramento Bee on The Beach House
"Bockoven is magic. Don't miss Another Summer." - Catherine Coulter, New York Times bestselling author
"Always terrific." - Romantic Times BookClub