A series for those who love stories about strong women facing challenges and finding love and happiness along the way.
Three talented women are brought together by a man they all love,
becoming his Desert Flowers, who work together to save his hotel from
being ruined by the company buying it…
When Willow Sanchez is asked to help Alec Thurston, the man for whom her
parents work and who’s always treated her as the daughter he once lost,
she doesn’t hesitate to leave Boston and come back home to Palm Desert,
California. Alec is dying of cancer and needs her help in overseeing
the sale of his hotel, The Desert Sage Inn, to another hotel group. With
her hotel accounting background and financial ability, she’s his
perfect choice to help make the sale a smooth transition while
maintaining the reputation of the upscale property. She arrives to find
two other women summoned to help Alec. Lily Weaver was once Alec’s
assistant, and Rose Macklin was heavily involved in the hotel in earlier
years. They join forces to help him, lovingly accepting his nickname
for them—the Desert Flowers, similar to the well-known Charlie’s Angels.
Willow is assigned to work with two young men, sons of the majority
owners of the hotel company purchasing the Desert Sage Inn. One of the
men, Brent Armstrong, attended the School of Hotel Administration at
Cornell University with her and used to bully her with unkind names. His
cousin, Trace Armstrong, seems to be very different. Struggling to
compete against them for the eventual job of executive assistant manager
at the Desert Sage Inn, Willow wonders if she’ll ever find the right
man to settle down with as she decides to stay in Palm Desert. A
talented golfer, she is forced to take Alec’s place in a foursome with
Craig Kincaid, the man both Rose and Lily think is perfect for her. But
neither Willow nor Craig is interested in anything serious until Willow
wonders if Craig might be the good guy Alec had always thought he was.
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4 STARS
I have been looking forward to this last book in the series about the three women called Desert Flowers. Willow was a smart, strong, caring woman with strong connections to not only the other women but also Alec. Willow had the loving support of her own mother and father but Alec had also been like a second father to her. He had done so much for everyone that it made for a lot of sadness knowing that he wasn't going to live on. It made times that were bittersweet.
It was good to have the alternating points of views from Rose, Lily and Willow.
This story had great world building in it. As well as a whole lot of trouble stirred up from Duncan and his son Brent. It took a while to figure out whether or not Trace was a totally good guy or not. That kept things interesting. Several of the early interactions that Willow had with Craig made her think that he was a player. Was he? Because she wasn't going to make any time for that. So friends it'll have to be if anything at all, right? Makes you wonder how long that will last? Is she going to have a future with either of the two men? All is answered in the story.
And so is the power play by Duncan and the final decisions about Willow's hosteling career. It all comes to a good ending.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from Booksprout. All thoughts and opinions are my own.