What makes life sweet?
- Freshly baked bread
- A cool lake on a hot summer day
- The comfort of a cozy bookstore
- Second chances and new beginnings
When Harper Shaw’s life falls apart, she knows it’s time for a change. She removes everything that doesn’t spark joy—from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists—and sets off for the last place she was happy, Lake Tahoe (who wouldn’t feel good there, right?) to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery.
With her Sugar Pine Bakery in between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie Campbell, and a bookstore, run by her new BFF, she feels a peace she’s never experienced since…well, forever.. Then she meets Ivy, a teenage runaway, who barrels into her heart. She sees a lot of herself in Ivy and takes her under her wing, but the teenager has secrets…
When those secrets explode, it changes Harper’s new world, and she’ll learn, it’s never too late to start over, it’s never too late to figure out your life, and best of all, it’s never too late to let yourself believe in love.
Review:
Absolutely un-put-downable!
Once again Ms Shalvis has written a charming and sexy story about people learning how to find their place in the world *and* find their people (or rediscover his people, in Brodie’s case). Like all of the Sunrise Cove books, this one is a standalone–but also like the rest of the series books, you somehow feel like you know all of these characters deep down in your bones before you’re more than a few chapters in.
I swear, Jill Shalvis is a freaking wizard like that.
Brodie, Harper, and Ivy (our 3 POV characters) are all wonderfully flawed yet completely relatable. Brodie’s grown up in the crazy, all-up-in-your-business kind of family that we all are pretty sure is mostly fictional but we all still kinda want to be a part of, while Harper and Ivy absolutely didn’t. I swear watching the 3 of them find their HEA together made my heart smile, y’all. With a sprinkling (OK, maybe a small flood) of happy tears along the way.
Gah! That epilogue–it slayed me. I’m a bit bummed I’m done with this one already and jealous of everyone who still gets to read it for the first time. I can’t recommend it enough!
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.