Coming Home

Coming Home is a 1996 Harlequin Romance by Patricia Wilson, published as a 187-page paperback in the Today's Woman series. The story is short and close to a single character, which is what the format requires: a run of reversals, one refuge and one relationship that has to be decided about before the final page.

Sophie Grant's difficulties arrive together. Her parents have died, leaving money she is not permitted to use; the house she lives in has been condemned; and she has lost her job. The novel opens with the practical question of where she can go, and the answer is Matthew Trevelyan's remote house in Cornwall, where she is housed at his discretion and at a distance from anyone she knows. The trust she cannot touch and the house that has been condemned are what leave Matthew Trevelyan's offer as the only one on the table.

The book is named for the proverb about Wednesday's child, which its opening line quotes. It is a late example of the Harlequin Romance form, written by an author with a long list of titles for the same publisher.