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They Laughed When I Left, So I Came Home the Town's Doctor

They Laughed Then Needed Me

A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read

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Six years after the town mocked her divorce, Dr. Sanna Lahti comes home to Marquette with five-year-old twins and a promise to keep. Her ex-husband wants her back, two good men want to court her, and his mother is about to learn whose children she has been sneering at.

Tropes & themes: contemporary · secret parentage · single parent · female lead · redemption arc · romance · small-town · divorce & regret · second chance · steamy

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: The Microphone (free)
  2. Chapter 2: Terms (free)
  3. Chapter 3: The Gate (free)
  4. Chapter 4: Leaves (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: The Key (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: The Hand (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: Pumpkins (free with an account)
  8. Chapter 8: Sunday Supper (free with an account)
  9. Chapter 9: The Nice Kiss (free with an account)
  10. Chapter 10: The Weekend (free with an account)
  11. Chapter 11: The Memo (free with an account)
  12. Chapter 12: Eero's Boat (free with an account)
  13. Chapter 13: The Plot (locked)
  14. Chapter 14: The Night Before (locked)
  15. Chapter 15: The Boil (locked)
  16. Chapter 16: Boil Over (locked)
  17. Chapter 17: The Loft (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: What It Costs (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: Three Days (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: In Front of Everybody (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: First Snow (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: The Last Pew (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: Thanksgiving (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: The Boathouse in Snow (locked)

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