The Goodbye Bride - Denise Hunter

The Goodbye Bride is the second book in the Summer Harbor series by Denise Hunter.

About the book:

She only remembers loving him. But he can’t forget the way she left.Following a concussion, Lucy Lovett can’t remember the last seven months of her life. She doesn’t remember leaving her fiancé Zac Callahan weeks before their wedding or moving to Portland, Maine. And she sure doesn’t remember getting engaged to another man. All she remembers is loving Zac more than life itself.  

It’s taken Zac months to move on after Lucy left him with no explanation. He’s thrown himself into his family’s farm and his restaurant business in Summer Harbor. Now Lucy’s back, vulnerable, homeless, and still in love with him. She needs his help putting the pieces together, but letting her back into his life is a risk—and the stakes are high. If he follows his heart he’ll win back the love of his life. But if her memory returns he’ll lose her all over again.

My review:

Lucy falls and smacks her head just hours before she is going to get married.  When she comes to she finds she finds her brain stuck seven months in the past, in love with Zac Callahan.  And she needs rescuing because she had absolutely no clue where she is.  So she calls Zac up.  And just like that, she's back in his life.  He doesn't want her around.  She jilted him and ran off only a few weeks before their wedding.  Zac had fallen in love with sweet southern Lucy, with her tiny height and cute drawl, almost immediately.  But that was all once-upon-a-time.   Before she left for no reason - or did she have a reason that he didn't know about?  But anyways, she's back and thinks they're going to get married.  He wants nothing to do with but can't deny that there are still feelings on his end also.  He's terrified of rejection.  What if Lucy regains her memory and remembers why she left him?  She would leave him all over again and he couldn't live through that.  Will Zac risk his heart?  Will Lucy go back and marry her other man - because he was her fiance!  And in the midst of all their drama, Zac's stubborn Aunt Trudy reveals a secret of her own - she has quite the history with the town sheriff.  Can Aunt Trudy find a happily-ever-after that should have come years ago?  Not my favorite Denise Hunter book, but it's still amazing.  I loved Zac's vulnerability and fear of rejection as well as Lucy's sweet out-going character.  Their story is not one that will be forgotten.