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Taking the plunge…
Lacy Caldwell’s mermaid gig at a cheesy roadside beach bar provided much-needed income while she pursues her graduate degree. That is until the beloved owner dies and her greedy nephew announces he’s cashing out by closing the bar and selling the property to a developer who’s going to replace the kitschy charm of the Mermaid’s Purse with ocean-view condos.
Cameron Sanders can’t believe his good luck. Struggling financially, he’s thrilled to find out some random, ancient aunt he hardly knew died and left him an inheritance that’ll help take the money monkey off his back. He’s ready to go to the mat in battle when some annoying mermaid from the bar tries to throw a wrench in his plans. But things get complicated when he realizes that she’s a woman he’s started to have feelings for.
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Lacy is a mermaid. Not a real one, just a pretend one at the Mermaid's Purse. This is a bar run by a crusty old spinster who loves Lacy like a daughter. Lacy's pretty attached to her as well. The staff is a quirky mix of old and young character and the place is like a second home to her. Since she's busy studying along with this part time work gig, she's got no time to socialize. That's okay with her, till she has to attend her best friend's engagement party and face up to her ex boyfriend.
She needs a date. She's seen Cameron around her gym and shared a couple of yoga classes with him. Bolstered by the good folks of the Mermaid's Purse, she decides to ask him as her plus one. Cameron has been eyeing Lacy from a distance. He's a struggling artist whose got no money to make the rent, so he can't hop on to the dating wagon with anyone. Still it's something he would love to, especially if he was dating Lacy.
Then the owner of the bar dies and leaves it to her distant nephew. Now Lacy's heard that the nephew is planning to sell the bar and she's worried about her job and the legacy of the bar going down with the bulldozers. She's all set to light one into the nephew, when she comes face to face with Cameron. The characters at the bar make it sound like such an interesting place. I enjoyed the situations that they go through, especially the yoga class downward dog was funny to imagine.
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If lusting after him is wrong, she doesn’t want to be right…
Harper Landry sometimes feels like she’s turned into a professional dater. Which might not be such a bad job if it didn’t involve having to spend so much time with a succession of truly undesirable men who were obviously still single for good reason. So she’s elated when she ends up on a blind date with the charming and handsome Danny Greevy, a man who seems too good to be true. But Harper’s starting to think that too good to be true might be downright perfect for her. Particularly when the man who launched her man-drought shows up unexpectedly to throw a wrench in her life yet again.
Noah Gunderson is back in town after traveling the world for the past several years. Forced to return home after promising his mother on her deathbed to save the beloved inn that she’d nearly run into the ground, he’s planning to get far away from Verity Beach just as soon as he’s got the inn back in the black. And he’s determined not to let the distraction of Harper Landry, the one that got away, keep him here a moment longer.
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I read book two in this series before I read this one. So I sort of knew a couple of things that happened, but it was still a really funny book. This one is about Georgie's boss Harper. Now here's a girl who is running through the blind date disaster list like a pro sprinter, and when she finally hits a guys she thinks has potential, guess who shows up? Her ex-boyfriend is the present Uber driver taking her current date and her to their destination.
That was a really funny situation. I also enjoyed getting to know the reason behind Noah ditching Harper, who he still considers the love of his life, all those years ago. What I liked about the story was that it was simple. There were no huge complications making characters act in a certain manner. It was just runaway emotions that they were trying to deal with. I found the language filled with colloquial fun. The story interesting, although somewhat predictable.
There were some scenes that I really enjoyed. Like the time when Noah is baby sitting his nephew Tyler. I can just imagine the horror on baby Tyler's mother's face when she saw half the stuff they did. I also enjoyed the way Danny was demoted from prospective boyfriend to two timing cheat. All in all it was a good read. Looking forward to reading the third book in the series.
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If it swells, ride it…
Georgie Childress moved to Verity Beach to lick her wounds after her controlling fiancé pulled a runner mere weeks before the wedding. Jobless and desperate to flee his turf, she sought solace in the quietude of the ocean, happily escaping into her own thoughts while surrounded by diving dolphins and cacophonous seagulls. Only when she accidentally runs over some random—and super sexy—surfer dude’s surfboard does she start to wonder if she needs to bring her head out of the clouds and start paying attention to life again.
Spencer Willoughby long ago fled his rigid upbringing, shunning the familial expectations of an Ivy League education and Wall Street career in favor of the sun, sand and surf along North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Give him a surfboard and he’s a happy man. That is until some nutty lady with a penchant for fender-benders backs into his beloved hand-crafted wooden surfboard, snapping it in half. It’s enough to make a man crazy—crazier still because the kooky blond is making his blood run hot.
Just when he finally gets the woman out of his head, Spencer is unwittingly paired off with her at a wedding as a favor to a friend, forcing him to make nice with his board-murdering nemesis who he might just want to ride off into the sunset.
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This was a book that made me smile. Georgie is an emotional and extremely sentimental person. Having been stood up at the altar, her resolve to safeguard her heart includes sticking with her BOBs and not looking at men for even companionship. Then she goes to the beach and "Kills" a handmade surf board. The surfer dude is very understanding, although he may be just been in shock. She feels terrible about her action and decides to do something nice for the stranger, like making him a handmade quilt.
Of course she has no idea how she's going to give it to him. Considering that she doesn't even know his name. Then she heads to her cousin's wedding and bumps into him again. He's been tasked with keeping her busy for the evening while his friend tries to make headway with her boss and friend who accompanied her to the wedding. Needless to say, things get a bit uncomfortable.
Spencer spent a lot of time and effort crafting the perfect wooden board to surf. He even named it Petie. And then this thoughtless blond just killed it. How was he supposed to surf now? He'd left behind a privileged life to get away from the suffocating stranglehold of his father. He was not quite over the betrayal of his ex girlfriend who supported his father rather than his own dreams. Women were simply not worth the effort it took to develop a relationship.
Tinder was good enough to meet any other needs. So when he runs into the weepy blond from the beach, he's wondering what kind of evening he's in for at the wedding. It ends up going better than he expected and even as he skips out the next morning he can't help but think maybe he's doing something wrong.
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