Title: Returning to Love
Author: Norah Porter
Date: 2023
Quote: "She wanted to feel the way she had when she'd been with Drew."
Hannah's family wanted her to leave the island and go to college. Their unaccountable dislike for her high school boyfriend might have deserved more serious consideration than Hannah gives it--on islands, as in small towns, elders have been known to disapprove of otherwise desirable matches because they know the young people are or may be cousins--but this doesn't seem to be the case with Drew and Hannah. Anyway they want her to know that, if she comes back to the island, it's a choice, that she could have been successful in the city. Hannah has been reasonably successful, for her age, in work in the city, but the only romance in her life has consisted of being pursued by Ted, whose controlling, narcissistic tendencies are starting to turn her against him.
Back on the island, Drew married Fiona, who was too selfish and immature to stay with him very long. Although Fiona did not leave him for another man and is still possessive of her ex-husband, which some Christians would think indicates that they ought to be reconciled, Drew and Hannah are still attracted to each other and want to pick up where they left off.
It's a sweet romance so you know how this must end. Some readers will object to Drew's being divorced; those who don't may enjoy visiting the unnamed, fictional island town. Nobody becomes a Christian or preaches a sermon in this book. However, characters go to church, thank God, and recognize Hannah's saying no to premarital sex as a display of Christian "virtue."
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