A Longing Kind of Love

Paige Wilson is reaching the end of her college career and she is ready to start living a meaningful life. Things come to a halt when her grandmother passes away and she runs into Brett Carter, her brothers best friend, at the funeral. Brett has been in the Marines for the past four years and she hasn't seen him since he left when he was seventeen. She had always seen him as her little brother's best friend. He has changed though. He is still charming as ever but now he has the looks to back him up. She has never looked at Brett as anything more than a little brother but he certainly isn't little now.
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Brett is now honorably discharged from the marines and back in Wilton, NC, his hometown. He is twenty one years old and is ready to figure out his purpose. He left when he was seventeen and lost. The marines gave him a purpose for a moment but he knew it wasn't something he wanted forever. So now he is enrolled at the local community college to be a vet technician. He has missed his best friend, Derek, and that his grandma has died. He goes to the funeral and sees Paige, Derek's older sister. She is only a year and a half older but when they were teenagers that difference seemed like a lot. Now, he is older and mature and a man.