Happy After All: A Novel
When a romance author meets a mysterious stranger, love is the last thing she expects to find in a funny and heartfelt novel about second chances by a New York Times bestselling author.
A city girl leaves her life behind in LA to start over in a small town...
It's a cliché, but it's also Amelia Taylor's life. And her new life as a romance novelist and motelier is going great--until Nathan Hart checks in.
Of course he's disastrously handsome, thoroughly disagreeable, and seems to be set against Amelia on sight. Of course there's smoldering tension between them that can't be ignored. They'd make the perfect enemies to lovers story. It's one of Amelia's favorite tropes.
But the man in room 32 seems genuinely broken, and it's going to take more than romance tropes and wishful thinking to get past his wounds. As a tentative friendship grows into a deeper connection, Amelia and Nathan both realize that facing each other's painful secrets takes courage. Do they dare take the risk and hope it ends happily after all?
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Amazon First Reads choice -- sometimes they're good and sometimes not so much, this one is one of the better ones - to me, at least.
This book hit home for me on many levels which is why I rated it so high 4.5 out of 5; rounded up.
I enjoyed how the author gave a genre focus, and then met the focus for many of the chapters, it was a new way to set a story, and that was kinda fun!
I am from Apple Valley (San Bernardino County) the Mojave Desert in California, so the towns and areas mentioned were a way of coming home to me, a person sadly transplanted to a state on the other side of the country, in Pennsylvania, where the people here are not as friendly as the people I grew up around. The challenging people as well as environment was hard for me and it changed me dramatically in ways I don't really like, but every now and then there is a book or movie that can take me home, and help me remember who I was before...once upon a time ago.
The story theme hit home on too many levels too, the mother, the boyfriend, trying to survive emotional turmoil, the loss... and more which I won't say so as not to give away spoilers to ruin it for others.
This book hit home for me on many levels which is why I rated it so high 4.5 out of 5; rounded up.
I enjoyed how the author gave a genre focus, and then met the focus for many of the chapters, it was a new way to set a story, and that was kinda fun!
I am from Apple Valley (San Bernardino County) the Mojave Desert in California, so the towns and areas mentioned were a way of coming home to me, a person sadly transplanted to a state on the other side of the country, in Pennsylvania, where the people here are not as friendly as the people I grew up around. The challenging people as well as environment was hard for me and it changed me dramatically in ways I don't really like, but every now and then there is a book or movie that can take me home, and help me remember who I was before...once upon a time ago.
The story theme hit home on too many levels too, the mother, the boyfriend, trying to survive emotional turmoil, the loss... and more which I won't say so as not to give away spoilers to ruin it for others.
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