Falling into You by Poppy Parkes

Isla
I left Edgewood as soon as I could. After a teen pregnancy made me the town outcast, I can’t say I’ve had any desire to return. But it’s been years, and now my mother is ill and I can’t stay away. So I’ll go back because I have to. Because I love my family. I won’t stay, though, I know that for sure.
At least, I thought I did. Until Ash shows up and makes me question everything. He was one of the very few people who never turned their back on me. And now, seeing him again after all these years, I feel drawn to him in a way I can’t explain — and that I ache to explore, if only I have the courage.

Ash
Isla was always off limits. She was my best friend’s sister. After I saw how he reacted when her high school boyfriend knocked up and then abandoned her, I knew I couldn’t risk our friendship on the chance she might have feelings for me. Besides, between finishing school and being a young mom, she had enough on her plate without me muddying the waters.
But now she’s back, come so far from where she was when she left Edgewood — and she’s more beautiful than ever.
And maybe I’m crazy, but I can’t shake the sense that my feelings toward her might not be one-sided. The only question is, will I take the chance now that I didn’t before?