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review 2019-03-07 22:38

Ann Smith, an Actuarialist, has been having a hard time with life for the past two years since her fiance passed away right before their Christmas wedding, especially during the Christmas season. When her best friend Mandy has to delay coming on their trip to Lake Tahoe for skiing, Ann is bummed. Mandy says her friend Chase will drive her up there and she will come in a few days. Ann tends to over analyze things and isn't sure she wants to travel with some guy she doesn't know but she ends up going anyways. Along the way they run into all kinds of issues but Ann decides she is going to be brave and come at them head on.

Chase Deckert lives life by his own rules now after his previous business partner screwed him over. He tends to spend most of his time in Lake Tahoe snowboarding and even giving lessons. As Chase and Ann spend more time together, things start to heat up. When ghosts from their pasts start to creep into their lives, Ann and Chase needed to decide if they were going take that leap of faith to find something that may be the best thing they've had ever known.

I really enjoyed this fun, heartfelt story. Both Ann and Chase are sweet, really nice people who have had bad things happen to them in their past. It was great seeing them get past their demons to find their happy ever after

review 2016-09-20 22:06

suegaluska

This book sure proved that opposites really do attract!

Marcus Colby was born into money, but is very successful himself in real estate. He expects his life to be completely in order and he has a hard time when things go differently than he is expecting. Marcus' Aunt Sarah was really the only family member that he actually liked and she just passed away unexpectedly while walking her dog in the woods. While Marcus was wandering through the woods to find the place where he lost his aunt, he comes across a woman sitting alone in the woods on the boardwalk he needed to cross. As Marcus walks closer, he hears the woman talking to herself and he thinks she is crazy....something he has no time for in his life.

Grace Davingham may be the daughter of the famous rock star, Jerry Davingham and the equally as famous super model, Sophie Whalley, but she was tired of being in the spotlight....especially after what happened with her ex-boyfriend. All Grace wanted was to paint wildlife pictures and bring to light the damage being done to the wildlife....so Grace moved to Eastbridge where life was way less quiet.

The first meeting of Marcus and Grace was awesome. It was so funny. I loved how these two were so different yet they seemed to compliment each other perfectly. Grace is so laid back you could feel at times like it drove Marcus crazy.

When Marcus found out he inherited his aunt's dog, a Great Dane named Mr. Pipplepotts all hell breaks loose. He can't handle a dog in his life, let alone a huge dog! This dog added so much comedy to the story! He was great! This big dog though helps bring Marcus into Grace's life more often, which he is starting to realize he enjoys. As Marcus and Grace start to spend more and more time together, it is very obvious they are meant to be together. Of course, along the way there are a few bumps (his family, her family, work etc...) but eventually they end up with their happy ending.

Overall, this was a wonderful, enjoyable read, that was filled with laughter, sadness and sexy swooning. Great job!

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review 2016-08-07 00:00

Anywhere You Are: A Return to Briarwood Novel

Hopeless Romantic

Ms. Barrett does well at tickling the funny bone. She delivers feel good romance that relies on the reader's ability to exercise both the brain and the heart in order to understand the true meaning of self reliance and the power of finding a place to belong. Anywhere You Are there proves that in order to understand where you are meant to be, a person has to search within themselves to discover who they are.

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review 2016-02-24 01:11

Good Story and Characters

BuckeyeAngel

Once and Again: A Return to Briarwood Novel - Elisabeth Barrett

Jake was a teen who worked as a caddy at Briarwood Golf Club. Carolyn’s father was a very wealthy member. Jake was from the wrong side of the tracks. Somehow Jake and Carolyn were attracted to each other. But then they were caught making out and Carolyn was forced by her dad to end things. Then her dad had Jake arrested and he lost his job. Fifteen years later Carolyn’s father made some bad financial decisions and now had a lot of debt. Carolyn’s two sisters took off and would not help but Carolyn got a job at the golf club as an event planner and slowly paying her father’s debt off. Jake has bought the golf club and comes back to town. Jake never forgot Carolyn and his anger fueled his fight to remake himself and work on getting to the top. Jake and Carolyn meet and even though they try to fight it there is still something between them.

This is a good story and plot only problem there seemed to be several other subplots that I don’t believe were needed. Otherwise the story was good as I said and I recommend.

I received an ARC of this story for an honest review.