This is your sunshiney heroine meets grumpy hero plot and I enjoyed it immensely.
She wants to talk the new owner of a beach motel into re-opening the motel, and marketing it towards single parents looking for love. Farren’s concept is to provide everything a family vacation package would have…but with babysitting and events for the singles.
He wants to brood and hide away from the world after the accidental death of his fiance. So he left New York and came down to Last Chance Beach to stay in the vacant motel his aunt had left him in her will. But Farren’s persistence and perpetual smile finally get him to drag himself over to the door and answer her. He plans to grumpily tell her no, but she is just so…sunshiney.
However his attention snags on one detail: She said his sister told her he would love this plan. His sister is meddling in his life again and after what happened with his late fiance, he’s not okay with that. So he tells her he’ll open the motel and let her run with her idea on one condition…they have to fake date. He wants his sister off his back, and he thinks if she believes her plan worked, she’ll leave him alone and quit playing matchmaker-especially after how disastrously his last relationship went.
Farren isn’t ready to give up a year of her prime dating time, however, she realizes that she’ll be too busy to date anyway, so she agrees. Besides, the reclusive and grumpy owner dating her can work in her favor. My favorite scene was shortly after he agreed. His six months of brooding alone like a hermit mountain man had left him hairy, bushy, and wearing socks with holes in them. So he went to the barber and when she came to meet him the next day she didn’t recognize him. I cracked up. These two were great together.
While they fake date, it starts to become awfully real. But when his sister decides to pry, and her ex decides to reignite an old flame, can their fake relationship become a real one?
Slow burn. Fake relationship. beach romance, summer fling…I enjoyed this book so much. This is the third book in the Last Chance Beach series where each book is written by a different author., but takes place on the same island.
***Review copy provided by the author
