The Sweethearts' Knitting Club (2009)

Lori Wilde's romance, published by Avon in 2009, is set in Twilight, Texas. Flynn MacGregor has spent ten years turning down a steady man's proposals, and her friends at the Sweethearts' Knitting Club know only half the reason: her high school sweetheart, Jesse Calloway, is back. (Open Library)

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Timex (unidentified model): The novel opens on the day Jesse is released after ten years in a Texas prison: he freezes in the act of strapping on his battered old Timex, the only thing he still has from his good-for-nothing father, and then stabs the strap through; the warden hands him the cheap suit the state supplies. When Flynn sees him again, the same battered Timex is on his left wrist (p. 65). The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: Jesse Calloway froze with the only surviving remnant from his good-for-nothing father, his battered old Timex, half-strapped onto his wrist. (Lori Wilde, The Sweethearts' Knitting Club, scan cataloged as Avon Books, 2009, p. 1; Internet Archive scan OCR)