Come As You Are by Jess K. HardyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Ashley is a forty-six year old divorcee with an adult child. She and her mother run a family ski resort for the local community. But they are losing money, not least because her mother invests in whatever takes her fancy, and her slimy ex-husband Chuck runs a rival resort and keeps trying to buy them out.
Her mother's latest scheme is to hire ex-cons from Little Timber Sober Living Home for minimum wage, rather than the college kids they normally hire.
Matthew 'Mad' Madigan was a famous Rockstar back in the day, but he partied too hard and was put in prison for selling heroin. Twenty odd years later he runs the sober living home and looks after the men. It's difficult to find places willing to employ ex-convicts and after the mill closed Ashley's resort is their best hope.
This was pretty enjoyable fluff. In the best traditions of the film White Christmas, Madigan suggests putting on a show to save the resort. Ashley's ex-husband is a snake, there are lots of misunderstandings, but it all comes right in the end.
My only gripe was that Madigan doesn't sound/act like a fifty-three year old man and Ashley doesn't act/sound like a forty-six year old woman. I would say they come across as twenty years younger at least.
This was a Kindle freebie in July 2023 and is also available on the Kindle Unlimited subscription.
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