General Fiction (Adult) | Romance | Women's Fiction
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis returns to Sunrise Cove with a powerful, moving story about a young woman on a quest to find the truth about her father who learns the meaning of true love along the way.
Alone in the world, Tae Holmes and her mother April pretty much raised each other, but as Tae starts asking questions about the father she’s never met, April, for the first time in her life, goes silent. To make matters worse, Tae is dangerously close to broke and just manages to avoid financial meltdown when she lands a shiny new contract with an adventure company for athletes with disabilities and wounded warriors.
Her first big fundraiser event falls flat, but what starts out as a terrible, horrible, no-good night turns into something else entirely when Tae finds herself face-to-face with Riggs Copeland. She hasn’t seen the former Marine since their brief fling in high school, and while still intensely drawn to him, she likes her past burned and buried, thank you very much. Hence their friendship pact.
But when April oddly refuses to help Tae track down her father, it’s Riggs who unexpectedly comes to her aid. On a hunt to unlock the past, the two of them find themselves on a wild ride and learn a shocking truth, while also reluctantly bonding in a way neither had seen coming. Now Tae must decide whether she’s going to choose love … or walk away from her own happiness.
5 STARS
Tae and Riggs meeting back up in the opening chapters? It gave me a huge smile. Tae was one tough cookie with a HUGE chip on her shoulder and her sass was really funny ! It made me wonder how in the heck the author keeps coming up with these great people and the hysterically funny conversations ! How does she do that?
I enjoyed the push-pull relationship between the two of them. The nickname of, Rebel, that Riggs gave Tae was a good fit. It was also amazing how different the two people were but yet they also had some similarities which wasn't seen right away. Their childhoods weren't normal by any stretch.
Anyone trying to get up in Tae's business though, not a good idea. Not even how much she loved her mother allowed that. She had her own ways of shutting that out and her ways of coping that were uniquely hers.
I really liked how Riggs handled Tae and how the friendship pact came about. For a guy closed off as much as Riggs was, he sure got how Tae was and when to back off. But he also enjoyed rattling her cage too. She made him laugh too which is something he hadn't been doing much of. It was sweet how tender he could be with her too. That friendship pact sure did lead to some interesting times.April was Tae's mother who I was surprised to see had her own P.O.V. included. Surprised me but I was glad to see it. It amused me when it comes to her perspective about Riggs not being a good match to be with Tae. Like come on, her gauge on finding good guys has been pretty much at zero for most of her life. But it all came from loving Tae and wanting better for her. But that lie that April has been holding is definitely heading to a big blowup. And it was quite the twist.
I've got to say that I hated to see the end of this story although I liked how it was completed.
" I voluntarily read an advanced reader copy of this book through Netgalley. And these are my honest opinions about it.”
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