Jack Shephard doesn’t believe in happy endings.
He tried the whole happily ever after thing, and it ended in divorce. As a single dad and the Chief of Police in a small town, he doesn’t have time to date, which is just fine with him. He’s not looking for love. Especially not with a woman from the city who’s just as jaded about love and relationships as he is.
Rosalie Crawford isn’t looking for love, either. Ever since her father walked out on her and her mother, leaving deep scars, she’s known that living happily ever after is nothing but a fairytale. She only does short-term and casual when it comes to men. When she gets stuck in Gossamer Falls for the night after scouting the location for a music video shoot, she doesn’t think twice about spending the night with gorgeous and sweet Jack Shephard.
After one night with Rosalie, however, Jack can’t help but wonder if there might be more there. When Rosalie’s boss, pop music superstar Carrie Clark, decides to shoot her latest music video in Gossamer Falls, Jack and Rosalie will have a chance to reconnect. But there’s something he’s failed to mention, something that might throw a wrench into his plans with Rosalie—he’s a single dad to an eleven-year-old daughter.
As much as Rosalie likes Jack, finding out about his daughter puts things in a different light. Relationships are risky enough, and with a kid involved…it’s all so much more complicated.
But one night under the famous—and possibly magical—Gossamer Falls just might change everything, for both of them. Because in Gossamer Falls, magic lurks around every corner, just waiting to be discovered.
Review:
Tara Wyatt is bringing all the feels with this series! (not to mention enough steam to melt the snowstorm that strands Rosalie in Gossamer Falls in the first place…)
One Enchanted Evening is a single dad (he’s the chief of police!), starting over romance set in a cozy Hallmark-esque small town with a legendary waterfall, a friendly ghost or two, and a whiff of magic. Jack and Rosalie have a near-instant connection–is it fate? A magical/possessed fortune telling machine? The legend of the falls? All of the above?–and before you can say friendship bracelet, two people who don’t believe in love and forever are suddenly thinking about forever.
Though of course there have to be some obstacles in the way. Rosalie lives in NYC and works for a very public figure (picture a lightly fictionalized version of a super-famous pop star, which I absolutely did not have a problem with <3) in a position that means all kinds of travel, and even in the midst of all kinds of sharing and getting-to-know-you chats, Jack never mentions that he is the parent of a tween. And then there’s Rosalie’s trust issues, and the fact that neither of them wants a relationship…
Fortunately, Ms Wyatt manages to bring them–and us–to the HEA we all knew was coming, with just a little bit of help. But was it fate? Magic? That waterfall? We may never know… 😉
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.