If you don’t fight for what you love, you won’t know what you’ve lost When Lauren Mackillop’s shady business partner gambles away her small business, she heads home to Surrender in Calamity Valley, Texas, to lick her wounds and plan her next move. But she walks straight into another battle to thwart a development company’s scheme to take over their charming Texas haven. Determined to safeguard … Determined to safeguard her town, her senses are on alert when the sexy stranger she flirted with while briefly stranded at LAX turns up as the new owner of the saloon. Something’s going on, and this time, Lauren isn’t going to give in without a fight.
Mark Sterrett has trouble on his heels and more on the way. To protect his family’s reputation from ruin he’s been tasked with ensuring this land deal goes through. But he’s up against more than he bargained for. Making his life more complicated, he’s drawn to the intriguing and enticing Lauren and as their attraction simmers and the threat to the town heightens, Mark wonders if he can get through the next two weeks with his conscience and his heart intact.
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I enjoyed being back in Calamity Valley for a meet up with some friends from the first book and to see Lauren overcome the Great-grandfathers curse and find her man and come to terms with her soothsaying gift, this one is a very up and down journey with a lot of humour, fun, and a sensual pull.
Lauren Mackillop always knew that she would return home to her town of Surrender but not the way it happened by being swindled out of her business, the long trek starts with a strange meeting with a man at LAX airport and a pull that she cannot get over, she tells a few stories but makes her way home to the fold of the family, her grandmother Ava, cousin Molly and aunt Marie and here starts a journey to bring the town back to life and stop the developers, but when the stranger from the airport shows up things are about to get a little strange.
Mark Sterret is on a mission to save his family and this means that he has to do what he can to help the developers get their hands on the land in Surrender, but when he runs into the beautiful woman from the airport again he knows he cannot do anything but help her and the town out with their problems, and in the meantime he also cannot help falling for the beautiful different Lauren.
This story has a lot going on there is fun and a very quirky side to this town but the love and caring that they all show each other stands out strongly, they band together against the developers, even though Mark’s family is in danger, he is always there for them and Lauren what a heroine trying so hard to come to terms with her gift and knows that she is falling head over heels with Mark, yes theirs was a rocky journey but what a HEA and I do look forward to Pepper’s story, thank you MS Jones, this is such a great story.
This is the second book in the Calamity Valley series that is based in my state of Texas. Author, Jeannie Jones has given us readers a really fun read that starts in Cali and makes it way to our fine state. What I love about this book is right from the start we get humor with Lauren’s relatives who have passed over talking to her and letting her know about things that are going to happen (and we get a peek that she did not listen to them in the past as well.) This is the second book in the series and while you do not have to have read the first book to enjoy this onem i will say it is a good book that i recommend as well. The first book is about Molly’s town Hopeless and this one is based in Lauren’s town of Surrender. Yes all in Calamity Valley and there is a reason for the theme of the names which you will find out when you read the books. This is a romance with a touch of comedy. I am so looking forward to the next book in the series!
OMG…amazing, with a touch of love, community, and little special ability.
I adored the story between Lauren Mackillop and Mark Sterrett. It’s one you will just have to read no spoilers here.
An imaginative and highly entertaining story.
It was no secret that all of the Mackillop women possessed mystical powers and that they were cursed. But, was it possible to break the curse? Lauren is about to find out when she returns to her hometown of Surrender, Texas, after her life fell apart in California. Lauren was needed to help restore Surrender and prevent Donaldson’s Property Development from swooping in and buying up the town. The one thing Lauren didn’t expect to happen was to run into the man she met at the airport; the one who kissed her and caused visions of the future to appear.
Mark Sterrett was being blackmailed. He would do anything to protect his family from the dangerous people who were making threats against them. The one thing Mark didn’t see happening was for him to fall for the woman he was supposed to be watching. As he got to know Lauren, he wanted to help her too. This put Mark in a sticky situation, but with a little luck and some good planning, he might be able to save his family, Lauren and the whole town of Surrender.
This is the second book in the Calamity Valley series, but it can be read as a stand-alone. In fact, I never had the chance to read the first book, but I will definitely be going back to read it soon. The author’s writing style felt so real, like I was part of the story. The book started out a little slow but I was glad I stuck with it. It was such a fun book to read. It is filled with action and interesting characters.
Enjoyed it
What I liked:
The writing style
The characters
Part of a series: Calamity Valley
Standalone
HEA
I look forward to reading the next book in this series.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC from NetGalley.
Umm…not sure what to say. There was a lot of potential, but it just didn’t pan out as I had hoped or expected. I never really connected with the characters, they were stagnant and truthfully, not all that enticing. They weren’t unlikable, though. The clairvoyance aspect seemed very disjointed and hard to follow. It just didn’t flow well. There seemed to be too much out of place in this story. Yet, the book held my interest but I didn’t have trouble putting it down. I overlooked the jumping around so that I could get to what happened next. The book was OK, nothing I would have felt that I missed out on though if I hadn’t read it.
This story proves that even when you have different ideas and oppositional feelings you can be civil and even develop a relationship.
I actually have up reading this book. Didn’t find the writing very interesting and I didn’t care for the characters.