The Past can Wait

About the book

Maggie and Arthur might be the perfect couple. If they’re ever together again. For five years, Maggie has waited patiently for Arthur to return to the city from the remote Australian Alps. He promised that once he had saved enough to buy them a home, they would marry. But when Arthur suggests Maggie abandon her nursing, family and friends to join him there, her patience whirls to a stormy end. In the mountains, a grieving Arthur wants to reach out to Maggie. Then he hears how a charming doctor is pursuing her, offering her the future he has continually postponed. In the city, Maggie takes Arthur's silence as the end of their affair. New lives, new chances offer themselves to both. Can they lay the past to rest—or will their perfect love become no more than a poignant memory? What readers say - “A sumptuously penned estranged lovers’ tale.” “The roller coaster the reader rides is a joy.” “The struggles of these young people pull at your heart strings. I didn’t want it to end.” “Cheryl Burman has a talent for drawing you in and you can't let go till the end.” The third book in the historical fiction Keepers series and can be read as a standalone.