Sometimes a match that’s all wrong, turns out to be just right.
While waiting to audition for a rare tubist seat opening, Avery Williams intends to cheer up her cancer ridden neighbor. She plans a throwback Christmas party in the barn where the sick woman got engaged forty years ago. It will be the highlight of the year, unless the building gets destroyed first.In town for a short while to help … first.
In town for a short while to help his sick mother, Gator Franks expects to grab a side job and make some quick cash to help pay her hospital bills. Unfortunately, he has to get past the ugliest cat he has ever seen, which happens to be attached to a little blonde with sparkling pink fingernails, a city-girl attitude, and a fixation on saving the barn he just contracted to tear down.
Slowly, using simple words, Avery explains to the uncouth mountain man—the one with the ferocious, tuba-player-eating dogs—that she can’t have a party in the barn if he bulldozes it first!
When circumstances force them to work together, it’s a race to see who will win first, and if they’ll give in to the growing feelings between them.
“Jessie Gussman creates believable characters that you will fall in love with and root for till the very end.” – Emily Camp, Author of Running Back
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Q: Why do you write?
A: I was not on the school newspaper team, but because my mother was the advisor for it, when someone didn’t turn in their assigned article, I often got selected as a volunteer to fill that spot. The school administrators liked to see articles about the aquaculture project the district had gotten a grant for, but everyone hated writing about the boring, smelly fish. One February, the assigned student went AWOL and I sat in my last period study hall trying to figure out how I could combine tilapia and Valentine’s day into an article that would make my mother happy. The resulting article, which started off with a line that included, “Could there be love lurking beneath the murky depths?” won an award from the county paper, and ran on the front page of the school newspaper. I sat in the school cafeteria and watched people read my article and laugh. It was a great feeling, not winning the award or having my article lead, but because I had made people smile. That’s why I write.
Q: What books do you write?
A: I write clean and wholesome contemporary romance with humor set in small towns and rural areas. I’m back on the straight and narrow from my wild high school days; no more fish erotica. The reading order for my series follows below.
SWEET HAVEN FARM
- HARVEST MOON HOMECOMING (novella)
- BETTER TOGETHER (book 1)
- JUST RIGHT (book 2)
Q: Why should readers pick up your books?
A: You’ll get all the feel-good tingles of a great love story with no graphic sex, swearing or violence. You’ll laugh along with relatable heroines and hunky heroes as they weather life’s storms and fall in love. I enjoy throwing in some fun science, history and local, rural trivia (Did you know that you can hold an egg in the palm of your hand and squeeze as hard as you can and it won’t crack?) so you might learn something. I hope my books are uplifting and encouraging. You’ll laugh, maybe cry, but you’ll finish the book with a great feeling of satisfaction. To quote St. Paul, “Love never fails.”
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Avery and Gator, two polar opposites, yet basically the same in their way of living, love of his mother, their caring for their friends. Absolutely enjoyed this story
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Avery is a city girl through and through. Refined, a professional musician – albeit without a job, she is helping her cousin out in the country and hoping to get a new position in an orchestra soon.Her one weak point his her fear of dogs and she meets Gator one day in town with his two dogs, after she climbed a light pole, to avoid his dogs. Avery and Gator seem to have nothing at all in common, but little by little they discover that the other is different from what they had thought and complements them in a wonderful way.
A lovely story of a slowly developing infatuation. I did have my problems at the beginning of the story – it seemed rather long and not to the point, but in hind sight it makes sense. Bear with it – it is worth the wait.
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Highly addictive, absolutely love it.
Well as it’s a very good book as you’ll be hooked. I know I did and it just blew my mind. It’s addicting and the rush you come off from reading it leaves you breathless.
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Wonderful Clean Romance
This is such a touching story! It takes place at Christmas in a small Pennsylvania town. It is a sweet and clean romance. The story is all about putting others first, community, caring, and love. This would make a great Hallmark movie. I received this story for free and this is my honest review.
Just Right is a beautiful story about a giving heart that tries to help others and she meets the most opposite man that there was in the small town. She has fell in love with a sweet old lady that had cancer and agreed to decorate her yard for Christmas as she loved Christmas. She puts decorations inside too and the smile of Mrs. Franks’ is the best thank you she could ever have gotten. Now Mrs. Franks tells Avery the story of the Christmas in Ellie and Fink ‘s barn when she was proposed too. She said if only she could have one more party there in the barn and of course Avery said she would make it happen. She took the pictures from that night to recreate the party.
Gator, Mrs. Frank’s son has came home to help out with his mother during the holidays before he was to return to Montana to his job as a Ranger. He is not happy with all the decorations as he was knocking them over because he was a tall well built rugged man that was good at his job. He meets Avery and he sees how she is so sweet and kind to his mother. He gets a contract from Fink to get the boards and beams from the rundown barn to sell to make both of them money, money that Gator needs to help pay his mother’s medical bills off. Avery tried to get Gator to give her time to throw this Christmas party before tearing the barn down. He agrees to do that. He did not know that the party was meant for his sick mother. In the meantime the town is having its Christmas festival and talking to Avery and holding her hand made him feel like nobody else ever did including his ex-wife that showed up for the festival. After Gator tells her the crazy talk that his ex-wife had asked him Avery knew she was no competition for Kristen. But, Avery had got under Gator’s skin. He would do anything to be around her. They both knew it was temporary, or was it.
Just Right by Jessie Gussman (Sweet Haven Farm book 3)
Story: 5 stars
What a wonderful story! I finished this book with a big smile on my face (and a tear or two in my eyes).
Ms. Gussman includes us in a journey of two people who are opposites, yet willing to grow and experience new things because they care deeply for the same special lady: Mrs. Frank, who is undergoing debilitating chemotherapy. She’s the mother of the quiet giant, Gator, and the good friend of the quirky and talkative Avery.
Their story is filled with funny situations, cute dialogue and lots of mutual attraction. Both of them are planning to leave the town of ‘Love’ right after Christmas, but as their attraction and friendship grows, both start to wonder what life would be like if they stayed.
*poor, **ok, ***good, ****very good, *****something special
Avery and Gator can’t be more different. But opposite attracts. Can’t they have a future together when she plans to audition for an Orchestra in DC after Christmas and Gator plans to go back to Montana after spending some time with his mother who is been treated for a breast cancer. Christmas’s magic will show them that love is worth it
I love Ms Gussman’s writing. She weaves some powerful truths in her sweet, often funny stories.
I love that she points out that those gentlemanly things old-fashioned guys do aren’t done because women are weak, but because they are valued.
I love that she points out that a woman can show she values her guy when she allows him to care for her in those little ways.
I love that Avery sees that, teeny tiny girly total opposite of big burly mountain man that she is, has a sort of power over Gator… She realizes she can just as easily hurt him as he can hurt her… and she’s more worried for him than for herself. Wow.
I loved this slow burn, enemies to lovers romance. I enjoyed watching all the antics Avery got up to trying to stay away from the dogs. I liked watching them both grow and change as they learned to trust after past hurts.
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I just finished Jessie Gussman’s Just Right and I am ready to read it again. This is a fun, sweet, clean, small town, opposites attract romance. Avery and Gator are both wonderful characters. I would be proud if they were my friends. The plot is about overcoming fears, learning to trust, fitting into a community, caring about others and a wonderful romance. I could not put it down!
She is waiting for a rare chance so while she is she decides to throw a party for her cancer ridden neighbour. He is there to tear the barn down and so they clash. Can she make him wait so she can do the party? Will he let her? What will happen? See if the party will go ahead
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Opposites attract in this romantic comedy about a clumsy professional tuba playing girl and a burly park ranger construction guy. Avery’s father ran away from her mom with another woman, her fiancé cheated on her, and she lost her orchestra chair to man. She doesn’t trust men, has no interest in dating, and is just helping her relatives out while she waits for an audition. Gater is home helping his mother dealing cancer and all the bills that come with it. He’s an outdoors man who likes to hunt and work construction and has no interest in a girl who is so afraid of his elderly dogs that she climbs a pole and jumps in freezing water to escape them. Avery can’t believe that Gater is the son of the nice woman that she has been helping. But they can’t help being attracted to each other. There were plenty of funny moments in this opposites attract romance.
The second book in this series that I have read and once I started it I was not putting it down a book that makes you feel good reading it. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Just Right – This is my first read by this author and I didn’t care too much for her book. I couldn’t get into the story, it was boring. Definitely couldn’t tolerate Avery and her ranting about the dogs and the barn. Her stupidity with the tank was the last straw. Gator may have been a better character but he wasn’t given a chance.
The fact that they both were generous and caring did show, but I couldn’t get past the fourth chapter. What I read was better edited than most books today. I contacted the author to review her book and receive a copy through Booksprout. 3*