The View from Coral Cove

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CLIPSTON, AMY

THE VIEW FROM CORAL COVE

When a jilted romance novelist escapes to a small beach town, the last thing she expected to find was the start of an even better love story.

In the wake of a broken engagement and the death of her last surviving family member, romance novelist Maya Reynolds moves to the haven of Coral Cove, North Carolina, to take over her great-aunt's toy store. Some of her grief is immediately ease by imaginative eight-year-old Ashlyn Tanner, who talks her into adopting a kitten and inspires Maya to create a princess tea-party room in the store.

Ashlyn's dad, local veterinarian Brody Tanner, is quickly smitten by the newest resident of his hometown. As a single parent, he sacrifices a lot in order to give Ashlyn the world, so a romantic entanglement Maya is not an entanglement he's looking for.

As the three develop a deepening bond in the seaside town where Maya experienced some of her happiest childhood memories, clouds cast a shadow over Maya's hopes for the future: an impossible deadline looms over her next novel, a long-held secret by her late mother about Maya's absent father comes to light, and Brody's resolve to avoid romance seems unbreakable. 

But together, they might just discover that sometimes happy endings happen outside the pages of Maya's novels too.

My Review:

What an enchanting story! The next best thing to a bookstore is a toy shop  in my opinion so the setting is perfect! And the meet-cute is all kinds of adorable, orchestrated by a precocious child and a naughty kitten. :-) 

And here's where I get to squeal over the veterinarian hero! Squeeep!!! An animal loving man who adores his daughter sets my heart racing. BUT, Brody does come with some baggage which results in a reluctance to become romantically involved with anyone...except he can't seem to resist the lure of the new owner of the toy shop. Especially after Maya enlists the aide of his daughter on an inspired store project.

The seaside town makes a great backdrop to this love story with plenty of wonderful secondary characters to cheer our couple on. And young Ashlyn is a scene stealer all the way through. The epitome of a feel good holiday beach read...with a healthy does of angst. :-)

Please note: This is from Thomas Nelson's 'clean' line (as opposed to Christian Fiction) so no faith content.

GIVEAWAY OPPORTUNITY:

This giveaway is for a paperback or ebook copy. Winner's choice.

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