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A sizzling novel about an ambitious and high-powered executive who reconnects with her first love: the boy who broke her heart.

Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway.

On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus, she’s stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé—a fellow VP—on the other side of her glass office wall every day.

Things get exponentially more complicated for Piper when she runs into Kyle Miller—the handsome new security guard at Calloway Group Industries, and coincidentally the first love of her life.

The guy she hasn’t seen or heard from since they were summer camp counsellors together. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks. The guy who apparently doesn’t even remember her name.

Piper may be a high-powered businesswoman now, but she soon realizes that her schoolgirl crush is not only alive but stronger than ever, and crippling her concentration. What’s more, despite Kyle’s distant attitude, she’s convinced their reunion isn’t at all coincidental, and that his feelings for her still run deep. And she’s determined to make him admit to them, no matter the consequences.


BOOK REVIEW: Say You Still Love Me

K.A. Tucker

RATING:

“I just . . . I wanted to see you again.”

K.A. Tucker’s endless imagination and ability to deliver vibrant, unconventional love stories that resonate deeply with her readers shine once again in this gripping tale of second chances and rediscovered love. Both a nostalgic summer camp romance that captures the sweet intensity of first love, as well as a hopeful story of new beginnings, it explores the very real complexities of whether a romance between two people from opposite worlds can ultimately survive in the real world. This is the kind of story that hits you right in the feels and stays with you long after it ends.

It’s been thirteen years. Does Kyle Miller remember me? Does he still think about me as I do him?

Sixteen-year-old Piper Calloway experienced many firsts during the two short months spent working at a summer camp in upstate New York—first love, first sexual experience, and everything in between—but she also faced her first heartbreak when the first boy she ever loved crushed her heart by disappearing from her life without a word. Over a decade later, that naïve, carefree young woman is long gone and in her stead stands a successful businesswoman who has not only worked tirelessly to prove herself in a traditionally male-dominated industry, but who also continues to do so every single day as she gets closer and closer to taking over her family’s real estate development firm. Her perfectly predictable life, however, is thrown into disarray when she suddenly runs into ‘the one who got away’—Kyle Miller—and finds herself haunted all over again by decade-old memories and unanswered questions.

…even after all these years, with college and boyfriends, and my career and my engagement to David, Kyle Miller has always been a sliver in my heart, a shadow in my thoughts. A lingering “what if” that I have never been able to truly shake.

But while Piper remembers every single thing about the mischievous, playful boy she once loved, the man he’s become acts like he barely remembers her at all.

A slight frown pulls his brows together. “Sarah, right?”
“What? Oh, right. Funny.” I laugh, waiting for his face to crack with a smile.
The moment drags on.
“Uh . . . Piper,” I stammer, my excitement deflating instantly. “From Camp Wawa?” You’ve got to be kidding me. I don’t look that different. And there’s no way I meant that little to him that he’s forgotten about me.
Is there?

As we move back and forth in the story with a thirteen-year gap in the timeline, the book’s alternating time structure gives the reader a chance to see Piper and Kyle’s romance blossoming in two very different stages of their lives. Much of their present connection rests on their memories of the strong chemistry they discovered that summer long since gone, but as Piper learns what forces prised them apart in the past, that knowledge becomes the first building block for a new, nascent romance that is full of promise, but also capable of leaving much deeper scars this time around.

“I can’t stand the thought of having you and then losing you again.”

While there’s a beautiful naïveté about the way a sixteen-year-old Piper experiences love for the first time and believes in the absolute power of that connection, the author takes her time building the relationship between the characters in the present. As they navigate a complex web of personal, familial, and professional challenges to figure out how to stay together, we also watch them consciously make room in their lives for the one they can’t live without, and to me, the real beauty of it all comes from the effort they make to figure out how they fit into each other’s worlds today. Tucker adds real-world undertones to a much beloved trope, turning this heartwarming second chance romance into a real treat.

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“Was all this really worth it?”
“To get even one more day with you? It was worth EVERYTHING to me.”

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