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She came to sell a cottage left by a father she never knew.
He came to make sure she couldn't.
Jade
Ellis doesn't do grief. She does plans. And her plan is simple — fix
the crumbling cottage she's inherited from a father she never knew, list
it, and go back to her real life.
Sawyer Kane has other ideas.
He's
been keeping that cottage alive for eight months. He knows every secret
it holds. And there's one buried under the floorboards that her father
left specifically for her — one Sawyer has been guarding since the day
she arrived.
He tells himself he's waiting for the right moment.
He's lying.
The
longer Jade stays — learning her father through a town that loved him,
falling for a man who shows up at nine o'clock at night to fix a
flickering light because it was flickering and that was reason enough —
the harder it gets to remember why leaving ever made sense.
He has loved her for eight years without saying a word.
Pelican Harbor has placed its bets.
And this town is never wrong.
Contemporary Romance
Young Adult / New Adult Romance
Small Town Romance
Small town
Age Gap
Forbidden Desire
Off limits
Best friends brother
One bed only
Second chance
Forced proxmity
grumpy/sunshine
Spicy
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My 5 Star Review TITLED: The Mother kept them apart for Years!
Jade Ellis only met her father, Frank once in her life. It was brief and it was painful. She never went back until she got the notice from his attorney. On the outside, the cottage looks like a wreck. But when she goes inside she makes plans on how to better it so that she can sell it quickly. Her nearest neighbor of 22 years, greeted her and said that Frank talked about her. Odd. Much later, we learn that here cruel mother ASKED Frank to stay away, so he loved Jade from afar. I hated that her mother did that. She stole years from Jade and Frank.
Sawyer wasn't cruel; he was patient, quiet and a man who greeted her gruffly with few words for a long time. Jade didn't know that Sawyer had been left by so many people. That is until he showed up at 19 years old and Frank "quietly" drew him in. She also didn't know that for 8 years Sawyer had quietly loved her from a far as well. He had never left there because he hoped that she would return and they might have a chance together. Frank's love for the both of them was so special !!
I loved the quiet friendships that developed for Jade and the special one between Tessa, who became her trusted sounding board. Later Tessa and her husband Reid come to dinner together, making it even more special.
A HUGE business opportunity comes up for Jade and now she has a very serious decision to make. I loved the sweet ending of this story as well.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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