First Crush (2008)

Marcia King-Gamble's romance, published by Kimani Press in 2008, opens on a houseboat on Fort Lauderdale's New River, where Hudson Godfrey, a practicing attorney who has sunk his savings into a Washington State vineyard with his partner, Jonathan Woods, has flown in to break up with his girlfriend, Laila Stewart, a copywriter. He cannot bring himself to say it, and when he goes home to Jon Hudson Cellars, Laila decides to follow him. (Open Library)

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Movado (unidentified model): Four days into a visit he meant to end with a breakup, Hudson lies awake on Laila's houseboat, stressed by two tough cases, a vineyard draining his money and a relationship he cannot give attention to. That morning he rolls his shoulders and glances at his Movado watch, working out that with a three-hour time difference it is far too early to call Jon back in Washington. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: Hudson stood, rotating his shoulders. He glanced at his Movado watch. There was a three-hour time difference from coast to coast. It was way too early to call Jon and find out what was going on. (Marcia King-Gamble, First Crush, scan cataloged as Kimani Press, 2008, p. 11; his full name is given on p. 40; Internet Archive scan OCR)