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Romance · 2011 · PG-13

Until There Was You

by Kristan Higgins

A widower initially courts a woman for his daughter's sake, only to realize he's fallen for her himself.

The owner of a successful architectural salvaging company, Posey Osterhagen feels that something is missing from her life until Liam Moore, the bad boy of Bellsford, New Hampshire, comes back home, reawakening her schoolgirl crush.

For14+GenreRomanceLength384 pagesRead time~8 hours

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Violence

None

None

Language

Barely any

Mild

Sexual Content

Some

Reviewers note the love scenes run notably steamy for what's otherwise described as a 'clean quirky romance

Substance Use

None

Not a factor

Emotional Intensity

Some

The hero's grief over his late wife initially leads him to treat the heroine as a stopgap rather than a real partner, which several reviewers found frustrating even as the relationship deepens

What this book is about

Still grieving his late wife, a father starts spending time with Posey partly to give his daughter a mother figure, treating Posey as something of a secret at first, before their relationship grows into something real in this quirky, clean contemporary romance.

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Heroine initially treated as a means to an end by the hero, per reader reviews

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