title: As If You Never Left Me
author: Knights, Katriena
description: Rey and Joely Birch had what they thought was a perfect marriage. Then, suddenly, it all fell apart. Joely left Rey in a fit of anger, moving halfway across the country to make a new life for herself in Colorado.  Now, fourteen months later, she's happy with how things are going, running a classy boutique in the mountains, creating ceramic art, and seeing her business already in the black. But then one day she looks up and Rey is standing in the middle of her shop. Sexy as ever and asking for a second chance. The last thing Joely wants is to let herself be hurt again. But he's still Rey, still the man she fell in love with, still the man who can send her heart racing with a look. And Joely's having a very hard time resisting him.  Rey knows he screwed up the best thing he ever had when he let Joely slip away. Now he has a chance to prove to her he can be the right man for her again. He wants time to be her husband again, to show her how he truly feels. And it looks like she's going to give it to him. She's willing to accept a date - even willing to let him sleep on the couch in her tiny mountain cabin. Bit by bit, he'll chip away at the wall she's built around herself. A piece at a time, he'll put his heart back together for her.  But will his carefully laid plans disintegrate when she finds out what really brought him to Colorado?   Sensuality Level: Hot