title: Years & an Ocean
author:  Jo Noelle 
description: Jo Noelle grew up in Colorado and Utah but also spent time in Idaho and California. She has two adult children and three small kids. She teaches teachers and students about reading and writing, grows freakishly large tomatoes, enjoys cooking especially for desserts, builds furniture, sews beautiful dresses, and likes to go hiking in the nearby mountains. Oh, and by the way, shes two peopleCanda Mortensen and Deanna Henderson, a mother/daughter writing team.
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  The Billionaire and The Bucket List
  
  
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  Hawaii Home Romance Book 1
  
  
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  Jennifer Griffith
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter One
  
  
  ### Chet
  
  
  
  
  
  Chet Winters dangled his fishing line in the water without baiting the hook.
  Same as yesterday. The ocean foamed a few inches from his sandaled feet. At
  the southwestern horizon, the pink sky threatened to break into dawn. When it
  did, he could count another day.
  
  
  He had to count. If he didn’t count, he was forgetting her.
  
  
  An early-rising seagull squawked nearby. Instinct would have made him shoo it
  off. But I can’t. Noelle loved seagulls. His wife had probably been the only
  human fan of the harsh-wailing scavengers. They’re smarter than they look, she
  always said.
  
  
  A sudden swell soaked Chet’s feet up to his ankles, and he lunged backward.
  He’d forgotten for the moment he was in flip-flop sandals, not his designer
  dress shoes polished to a sheen. He hadn’t worn them—or a suit or cuff
  links—since Noelle.
  
  
  The sun’s fi