With a little luck, this fake engagement just might become the real deal… Bridget hopes she’s landed a little piece of Irish luck…only to find she’s knee-deep in a crazy plan that’s turning her life upside down.
College professor Finn O’Hearn needs this job in Rendezvous Falls—his visa may depend on it. If he can convince his beautiful but tightly wound landlord to be his pretend fiancée, his boss will be happy—as will Bridget’s matchmaking grandma and her meddling book club. Finn and Bridget fool (almost) everyone with their sizzling glances and toe-curling kisses…even as they tell themselves it’s only make-believe.
Playing a part has never been so easy. But when love is real, it’s time to find the courage to start playing by heart…
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I loved Finn’s sexy Irish accent. He and Bridget are both passionate people and he really gets her riled up when she finds out he lied to his boss about them being engaged. But then it makes her Nana battling cancer happy, so she goes along with the lie. Until the lines between what is fake and what is true become blurred in their relationship. I laughed over so many parts in this book. Her grandmother and her book club matchmaking friends are a riot. Her extended interfering family are funny too. I loved the ideas she had for the Irish pub especially the beer garden. Finn and Bridget both act like idiots at times, both afraid to open their hearts because they’ve been hurt in the past.
Bridget left her life behind in California to take over the Purple Shamrock when her father passed away. Being the majority shareholder, she finds the Pub is barely in the black and her home is mortgaged to the hilt. The stress of running the Pub and making improvements, taking care of her sick Nana has left her stressed, tired and short tempered.
In walks Finn, who is trying to rebuild his life after finding his wife having an affair with his best friend. While trying to keep his green card, he jokingly tells his Dean that Bridget and him are engaged. The Dean takes it seriously and Finn convinces Bridget to be part of his crazy plan and he will help her out with the Pub.
The plans they made went astray as real feeling emerged. Can they both put aside how they started out, that they aren’t defined by past relationships and to learn to trust what they have is real? This is one tough job for the Matchmakers of Rendezvous Falls.
I received a complimentary copy of this book and I am voluntarily reviewing it.
First can I just comment on the cover. I mean just WOW! I love him holding her in his arms and staring into each others eyes! Ok I am a red-head with some Irish in my background so unfortunately for Bridget she didn’t look like the woman in the cover! More like someone that was a younger me.
Okay on to the review. I loved the plot. It was so beautifully written that I could just picture the scenes just flowing through. The author gave just enough detail that I was able to use my imagination to “fill in the picture” like going to a play.
Bridget McKinnon inherited the majority share of her family’s pub and her father’s house along with a ton of debt upon his early death. Bridget is busying trying to change the failing pub into something else while trying to get her family members (who inherited smaller shares of the pub) on board is like pulling teeth. Bridget has also managed and arranged the schedule of who will take Maura for her chemo treatments. Maura McKinnon is Bridget’s grandmother and family matriarch has cancer. She has a FULL PLATE. Add in her red-headed Irish temper and she has a problem keeping some employees at the pub.
Now Finn O’Hearn, is an Irish college professor who is now teaching at a much smaller college in the U.S. than previously. There was an incident (he punched his best friend and follow professor during graduation for sleeping with his wife!) Finn just wants to escape from the lime light of the controversy. He is working for tenure to secure his visa to stay in the U.S.
Finn finds out the Bridget is renting out a small apartment in her rather large home. Bridget has never rented to a man before. But there is an attraction between the two. Sparks fly and through a series of mishaps and a tall tale, the road to their HEA is one that shouldn’t be missed.
I adored the book not only having Bridget’s and Finn’s POV but also Maura’s as well. It was one that really touched me. I have had family members who have suffered with the same type of cancer. It really brought the story to life and made these characters so much more real.
I thoroughly enjoyed going back to Rendezvous Falls. While this is a part of a series, you can definitely read it as a stand-alone. This is a sexy read. Some people may be offend by the sexy scenes. I would only recommend this to someone over the age of 18.
The 3 rd in the authors Rendezvous Series & I swear they keep getting better if even possible!! I’ve spent the last week savoring this story with Bridget & Finn , barely able to set it aside . If you enjoy the whole Irish pub themed setting for a contemporary romance , you’re going to adore their story . This book is filled
With SO much fun, emotion & immense sense of family values & friendship storylines …. that you’re sure to have a few laughs & certainly appreciate the banter between Finn & Bridget. Absolutely adored their tender and touching emotional moments as well as their heated chemistry! You’re missing a lot if you haven’t tried any of Jo McNally’s books. She’s an auto buy author for me any given day. I’ve read this book in exchange for my honest review & opinions . Enjoy all!
BAREFOOT ON A STARLIT NIGHT by Jo McNally is the 3rd book of the Rendezvous Falls series. It begins with Bridget McKinnon who is willing to do anything for her feisty ailing grandma Maura, even if it means to serve green beer at the Purple Shamrock instead of pursuing her culinary dreams. But money is tight, so when a stranger with a sexy brogue asks about the apartment she’s renting out, Bridget could use a little piece of Irish luck . . . only to find herself knee-deep in a crazy plan that’s turning her life upside down. College professor Finn O’Hearn is desperate because he needs the job in Rendezvous Falls—his visa depends on it. But under pressure, he claims to be engaged with his beautiful but sassy landlady. Together they fool everyone with their sizzling glances and toe-curling kisses . . . it just make-believe, right?
Jo McNally creates endearing, fun-loving characters in a small town, involving a meddling book club and a matchmaking grandma. BAREFOOT ON A STARLIT NIGHT is a heartwarming love story filled with the snark, a close-knit Irish family, friendship, and a pint or two of scorching chemistry and tender moments between Bridge and Finn. It is a fun book to read and to laugh away your troubles for a while. I received this complimentary advanced copy by the author in exchange for my honest review.
This book was so romantic and funny. I fell in love with Rendezvous Falls and the large McKinnon family and their Irish pub. Bridget McKinnon, with her red hair and temper to match, worked at the Purple Shamrock which she inherited from her father. Her five cousins each own ten percent of the pub too and eventually she hopes to buy them out.
Finn O’Hearn stole my heart with his Irish brogue that I magically heard while I was reading. Their surprise engagement was funny until real feelings became involved and the lies got more involved.
Finn needed to realize the past did not and would not define him or he would be a lost, lonely professor with life passing him by. I really enjoyed this story and I cannot wait to return to Rendezvous Falls. I received an advance copy of this book and I willingly chose to write an honest review.
Jo McNally takes us back to Rendezvous Falls with “Barefoot on a Starlit Night”, introducing us to pub owner, Bridget McKinnon, and college professor, Finn O’Hearn.
Finn is being pressured by his boss to become part of the community and, since Finn needs to keep his work visa, he comes up with a fake engagement plan that includes his landlord, Bridget McKinnon.
Bridget’s focus is on keeping her family-owned restaurant afloat and controlling every aspect she can. The last thing she has time for is a hot Irishman whose accent has the potential to charm a place deep in her heart.
Both fail miserably at trying to not fall in love, but both will have to look inside themselves if they want their love to be forever.
Ms. McNally pens a touching, and at times, humorous story.
I received an advance copy for an honest review.
Romantic, humourous, and sentimental!
Barefoot on a Starlit Night is an amusing, sweet, steamy tale featuring the competent, hardworking Bridget, and the sceptical, heartbroken Finn as they discover that there may be more to their relationship than just pretence, convenience, and fake feelings.
The writing is honest and light. The characters are endearing, fun-loving, and supportive. And the plot is a delightful mix of life, love, family, friendship, patience, understanding, palpable attraction, scorching chemistry, tender moments, nostalgia, and small-town living.
Barefoot on a Starlit Night is the third title in the Rendezvous Falls series, and once again McNally has written a heartwarming, engaging, satisfying tale with just the right amount of hope, heart, humour, and heat to keep you yearning for a little more.
Bridget McKinnon inherited the Purple Shamrock after her father died. Well she inherited the majority stake in the Irish pub. Her McKinnon cousins each received a portion of the ownership. Bridget is determined to find a way to buy them out. She had gone to culinary school and wanted to open her own restaurant. What she has now though is the Purple Shamrock. Not exactly her life’s dream. Then there’s the ex-boyfriend back in California. It only took him a couple weeks to replace her. What a blow to her ego! Guess his “forever love” was just short-term. Her dad had let the pub start to slide downhill so it’s up to her now to renovate and get things up to par so she can make a decent living. She lives next door to the Purple Shamrock in one of the Victorian houses Rendezvous Falls is know for where her father converted the downstairs into an apartment. He always rented to college students and she continued that track but the latest student left her high and dry after fall semester. She needs the rent money to help pay the mortgage on the house. Enter Professor Finn O’Hearn, a true Irishman, with the sexiest Irish brogue who needs to find an apartment. She reluctantly rents the apartment to him.
Finn O’Hearn has lived in the USA for ten years. Until two years ago he was happily married. When his wife had an affair with his best friend and colleague Finn “lost it” and punched the guy – on the stage at the university where he was teaching – during Commencement. That lost him his job. He is lucky to have this new job at Brady College. Now his goal is to satisfy the college president’s requirements for a steady life in his new town of Rendezvous Falls. Getting his Green Card depends on it. Since he is still hurting from the betrayal of his ex-wife and ex-best friend he is not looking for a permanent relationship. Plus he doesn’t trust his judgement anymore. But Bridget McKinnon sure makes him very aware that he is missing out on life. Can he overcome his trust issues and make Bridget a part of his life?
Barefoot on a Starlit Night by Jo McNally is the third book in her Rendezvous Falls series. This series is centered around a small town where the local book club members have decided they are more into matchmaking than the books they are reading. In this story their mission turns out to be more repairing a messed-up relationship with their trying-to-be helpful, interfering ways. I liked how the group found ways to achieve success. This was a fun read. Both the heroine and hero had past broken relationships to overcome and I think this author did a great job getting them through to their HEA.
It’s a third book in the series, but you don’t need to read the first two.
That was a fun read. Yes it’s the usual boy meets girl, girl needs help, boy needs a Visa. (Green card the movie, springs to mind)
But the family dynamics had me chuckling for most of the book. The family makes this book worth the read.
With a meddling Nana, cousins who can’t or won’t help Bridget run the pub her dad left her and her cousins. To the kids that constantly run everyone ragged. And do t forget the book club Nana attends, those ladies are funny.
But the family do love one another, they just don’t have time to help Bridget run the pub.
The pub wasn’t Bridget’s dream, a restaurant where she could create her own dreams was what she wanted, but she promised her dad. And now she’s stuck, the pub isn’t making money, so she’s throwing out new ideas to the family, but as usual no one is interested.
Renting a room out seems the logical move, she needs the money, but the last tenant caused so much aggravation, Bridget begins to panic.
Bridget is a micromanager, she can’t give anything up, she runs a tight ship, so it’s her way or not at all!! That’s causing her to run the bar and cook the food mainly on her own, staff don’t stay long.
Finn needs lodgings, he needs a place so his College professor will look at keeping him on. He’s good at his job, but his reputation needs building back up (punching your friend for sleeping with your wife at a graduation presentation isn’t the done thing) Rendezvous Falls have given him a second chance, so he’s not going to blow it, he needs to keep his head down and prove he’s worth the risk.
But when a joke with his boss gets out of hand, he needs to think fast and get to Bridget before anyone else does……
But Bridget isn’t having any of it. The last man she trusted didn’t want to move to Rendezvous Falls with her, in fact not long after she left, he’d moved on!! So a fake engagement? Don’t think it’s going to happen……
As I said the family had me in stitches, but that’s not to say Finn and Bridget didn’t. There had been a little spark of attraction from the beginning, but the amount of time they need to spend together to convince people of their engagement has them looking at each other in a different light.
So will Finn get his tenure at the college? Will he finally be able to get his Green Card? Can Bridget get go of the reins a little? And will the fake engagement turn into a real one?
I received this book for an honest review. All thoughts are my own