Review: The Best Laid Plans

The Best Laid Plans by Karla Sorensen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Burke Barrett was a football player for Dallas until his knee blew out. He really only played to keep his father happy and is secretly relieved that his father's death and his own injury have meant he can stop living someone else's dream. He intends to move to Florida, where he's just bought his sister and her twins a house, and figure out what to do with the rest of his life.

Then life deals him a bitter blow. His best friend, possibly his only friend, Chris and his wife Amie die in a car accident and he discovers that they have left him a dilapidated house in Michigan. The house belonged to Chris's grandparents, Burke even visited it once with Chris for his grandfather's funeral, and it had been a lifelong wish that he could buy it back for the family. Chris and his wife had embarked on a long project of renovating the house prior to their deaths.

Burke can't believe that his best friend would put him in this position, Chris knew how much Burke hated living someone else's dreams and now he is forcing Burke to put off his own plans and take on Chris' plans for the house.

Charlotte Cunningham is an expert in managing the restoration of old houses, but after Chris and Amie's deaths the money dried up and her contractor went to another job. When she hears that Burke has inherited the house she is desperate to get him on board with her passion project.

Burke might delight in pushing Charlotte's buttons at every opportunity but he can't deny the sparks that fly between them - maybe a fling with an expiry date is in order?

Loved it. Sassy romance, just the right amount of smoulder to plot balance, love a tortured man and a woman who knows what she wants.

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