✰ Bianca ✰ Janeane ✰
★★★★★
4.5 Stars
From USA Today Bestselling Author Ella Frank comes a
small town, second chance romance.
Small towns are definitely not for me. Probably because I was born in one,
raised in one, and eventually run out of one. The understanding was that I
would one day return to Chamberlin California. After all, it is my namesake.
What my father didn’t count on however, was that once he sent me away, I would
never come back—at least not until he was gone.
Which brings me to now, his wake, at the family winery
that was supposed to be mine. It also brings me to her. The sweet girl I left
behind. The girl who has since grown into the most beautiful woman I’ve ever
laid eyes on—Laurel Anderson.
She’s looking at me as though she wishes I was the one
she watched get buried this morning. But she’s out of luck. I’m alive and
kicking. I’m also stuck in this town with nothing to do but wait until the will
is read.
Well, nothing to do but see if I can seduce the pure and
passionate Laurel, and change that anger I see in her eyes to something just as
fiery…desire.
***
The last time I saw Noah Chamberlin, I was a doe-eyed
innocent and he was the boy of my dreams. My future was all planned out down to
the wedding dress, until one morning I woke up and he was gone.
You’d think after all these years, I’d feel the same
blind indignation and rage that has haunted me since that day. Instead, the
second I set eyes on him again, I felt something altogether unwanted and
unexpected—lust.
If the rumors are true, he’s only going to be in
Chamberlin for a few days. I can handle that, as long as he stops looking at me
as though he’s thinking about the last time we were together.
But when Noah’s forced to stay and run the family business, it puts us in dangerously close proximity. And in a town this small, that can only mean one thing—trouble.
Laurel + Noah.
Noah left his family and his family's wine empire years ago. More or less willingly. His horrible father forced him into the decision. We don't yet know the whys and hows.
Laurel has stayed in town all these years - even though they always dreamed of bigger things. But now she's working for Noah's family. Which he didn't know.
ADORABLE!
I just love books set in Napa - or anywhere where wine is created! ☺
And I loved that we already meet the whole family - that way we can look forward to all the stories that'll come our way!
They see each other at the wake and it's like no time has passed. The attraction is just as huge as it used to be in highschool.
And it was such an adorable romance. Sparky, sexy, funny, basebally, winey. Full of family and anger and hope and love and pain and forgiveness.
Ugh how I hate the father! What a horrible person. Laurel & Noah missed so much life together. Grr.
I wished for more pages. I wanted more of everything. It was a bit ... no idea. The beginning dragged a bit without anything much happening. Just sexy flirting. And then when things get interesting, it's almost over.
BUT - I still liked the book very much. Can't wait to read all the other stories! Ryan is already my favorite!
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