Book of the Month by Jennifer ProbstMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Aspen is a vey wealthy writer who has never again achieved the success of her first book, a book written out of the despair she felt when her married boyfriend (and her college professor to boot) dumped her. Since then her books have been good but don't resonate with her audience - all of whom are demanding she writes the sequel since the first book did not end in a HEA.
She leaves New York to spend the Summer with her older sister (who practically raised her) in the Outer Banks, desperate to write a best-selling novel, and decides the only way to do it is recreate the drama of her first book, ie fall in love and have it fall apart catastrophically.
Brick had dreams of a big city job, but when his grandfather took sick and died he came home and took over his grandfather's failing tour guide business convinced he could make it profitable. Some time later he is failing. Worse, he has a reputation in town as a womaniser, heck there's even a weekly support group for women he's dated and dumped!
Aspen thinks Brick would be the perfect man to fall in love with and have her heart broken. He's handsome, grumpy, and most definitely not boyfriend material. However, he seems determined to swerve her advances, until she makes him an offer he can't refuse - enough cash to save his business and bring it up to date.
But what starts as a business transaction becomes real pretty fast, but if Aspen is going to write another bestseller it must come with an expiry date.
This would have rated higher if the story weren't ridden roughshod over by the smexy times - too much for me. It was a bit Gilmore GIrls where everyone has a story, Aspen's sister is clearly going to have her own book shortly, and there is an unusually high number of young single people for a small town.
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