Life broke her heart. Can the sands of time and the winds of fate put the pieces back together again, with a little help from love? Kincaid is not afraid to get the emotions dirty. She hits at the weakest point of the heart, in order to get a reaction. Callie's Second Chance for Love, reads like a balm for the soul. There will be bumps and bruises, but there will also be moments of joy and laughter. Healing does not mean we forget the pain of the past, it means we cherish the memories, learn from the heartache and don't lose ourselves in the process. A poignant look at a new beginning.

Fiercely independent Daisy Chance has a dream—and it doesn’t involve marriage or babies (or being under any man’s thumb). Raised in poverty, she has a passion—and a talent—for making beautiful clothes. Daisy aims to become the finest dressmaker in London.
 
Dashing Irishman Patrick Flynn is wealthy and ambitious, and has entered society to find an aristocratic bride. Instead, he finds himself growing increasingly attracted to the headstrong, clever and outspoken Daisy. She’s wrong in every way—except the way she sets his heart racing.
 
However, when Flynn proposes marriage, Daisy refuses. She won't give up her hard-won independence. Besides, she doesn't want to join the fine ladies of society—she wants to dress them. She might, however, consider becoming Flynn's secret mistress...
 
But Flynn wants a wife, and when he sets his heart on something, nothing can stand in his way...

I loved this first book in a brand new series of the Hudson Sisters. The premise is pretty good. A man. Fritz, has a wife on the west coast who is a Hollywood star. However, she's somewhat the type to only think of herself. If something comes up she's the first one to think "what will this do for me?". He also has two daughters, Des and Allie, with this woman (Nora).

A few years after marrying this woman, he meets and marries another woman (Suza) who lives on the east coast. He has one daughter with her, Cara. Neither woman or the daughters know about the other family. He does have a sister, Barney, who knows about both families and his lawyer and good friend, Pete, who knows about both. This goes on for years with Fritz traveling back and forth with neither family catching on. Until Fritz gets cancer. Pete is begging him to tell them - both wives are dead, only the daughters live on. Fritz is too cowardly to do it. He makes Pete to do it.

Not only that, but Fritz has a surprise. He wants his daughters to get to know each other. Fritz grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania where his family established a small town and pretty much owned and built everything. One of those things included an old time art deco movie house that has been boarded up for many years. He wants his daughters to restore it. They will not get any inheritance until they do. They must live in the small town of Hidden Falls, get to know each other and restore the theater.

This is all easier said than done.

Naturally one of the sisters is a witch with a b and the movie house has set empty for about 90 years. That's just the start of their problems.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first book of this series and look forward to reading many more. I found the characters wonderfully developed and really wanted to spend more time with them and hopefully I will get to. The author did a great job setting up the premise and the town, as well as the characters and I am ready to become one with the Hudsons!

Thanks Gallery,Threshold, Pocket Books for approving my request and to Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest review.

What fun I had reading The Summer Bride! Between Flynn and Daisy’s comical bantering, Lady Bea lovingly interfering in everyone’s lives, and catching up with previous characters, I hated to put this book down for even a second.

“None of that lovey-dovey stuff–you know what I mean.”
He grinned, a flash of white teeth. “What ‘lovey-dovey stuff’–you’ll have to be more specific. Give me an example, a demonstration perhaps.” The big rat was enjoying this.
“You know exactly what I mean.” She poked him in the chest. “Just behave yourself, all right.”

While this can easily be read as a standalone, I think it would be more enjoyable if you’ve at least read the previous book, if not the whole series where this finishes out the quartet. And what a great way to end the running storyline about these four ‘sisters’. I’ve fallen in love with the characters of course but I truly love the premise behind it all most. There is something wonderfully satisfying watching people form their own family out of a rag-tag bunch of supposed misfits or castoffs and seeing them succeed and find love. And that’s basically what happened in each of these four books.

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Unlike most regency romances, this one’s protagonists do not belong to the ton. The hero Flynn is a self-made businessman. He owns a fleet of trade ship. Now that he has amassed his fortune, he wants to get married into society, to get himself a London lady of the first water. Despite his humble origins and a childhood as a dockside rat, the aristocracy are ready to oblige him. Although most of them despise him as a vulgar ‘man in trade,’ a number of impoverished lords are willing to overlook Flynn’s unseemly occupation in exchange for a hefty settlement. They have young daughters for sale and creditors to keep at bay, after all, so Flynn has his pick.

Daisy dreams of having a dress shop of her own. Lady Beatrice, Daisy’s adapted faux-aunt, wants to make a lady out of her, but Daisy resists. She was born in the gutter, raised in a brothel, and she knows she can’t be a lady. Her exquisite designs are fast becoming fashionable among the high society ladies, and she would trade her own business for anything. She definitely doesn’t want marriage or children – they might complicate her budding dress-making enterprise – but Flynn fills her with disquiet. She likes him too much; she makes flamboyant waistcoats for him, but he only sees her as a friendly girl. Or does he?

The story is uneven. In the beginning, I was bored. Towards the end, I couldn’t stop reading. There are some strange logical gaps in the plot but there are also moments of emotional catharsis and a couple of funny interludes. The heroine’s resistance to marriage sometimes seem ridiculous, not realistic at all, and the hero’s boundless tenderness towards her belies his image as a ruthless owner of a large trading empire. Nevertheless, it reads easy, and I enjoyed the experience. Overall, a solid romance.