Fans of Jill Shalvis, Susan Mallery, and RaeAnne Thayne will love the fourth book in Olivia Miles’s Briar Creek series. Love is always in season . . . Florist Ivy Birch fantasizes about the day a man will surprise her with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Especially if that man happens to be Brett Hastings. One stolen kiss at her best friend’s wedding and Ivy can’t get the sexy ER doctor out of … ER doctor out of her head.
In the small town of Briar Creek, you can’t avoid anyone for very long. Not that Brett has been trying to avoid Ivy. He just can’t afford to let anything distract him from his work-not again. So when a hospital fundraiser throws them together, love is the last thing on his mind. But with her quick wit and sweet laugh, soon the one woman he’s tried to keep at arm’s length is capturing his heart…
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Florist Ivy Birch is in the business of adding happiness to people’s day’s, and just once she would like to be on the receiving end of it, just once she’d like a handsome man send her flowers in hopes of earning a special place in her heart. But unfortunately said man just hasn’t come along yet… that is until she crosses paths with handsome doctor Brett Hastings. She is instantly smitten with him, and begins planning their blissful happily ever after… but he doesn’t seem to reciprocate the same desire, he’s a busy man that can’t afford any distractions and the stunningly beautiful flower shop owner is definitely a distraction he can’t afford!
The minute Brett Hastings meets flower shop owner Ivy Birch he knows he’s in trouble, the woman is beautiful and oh so tempting, but he knows he can’t afford any distractions right now so he tries his best to shy away from their shared attraction. But after fate continually keeps putting them in each other’s paths his resistance to her starts to falter, and he soon finds himself entangled in a relationship with her, but unfortunately his busy life starts to get in the way and their relationship takes a big hit… one that threatens the happily ever after they both thought they’d finally found!
I have been anxiously awaiting for the opportunity to revisit this series, and get better acquainted with another one of Briar Creek’s endearing residents, and I have to say I enjoyed this trip just as much as my previous visit. Once again Ms. Miles won me over with her charming characters, and heartwarming story line, from the moment I started this one I was hooked, and on a mission to see to it that these two found their well deserved happily ever after. Their story was rich with undeniable chemistry, brimming with hope, packed with passion that steamed up my Kindle screen!!
If you like small town romance stories with just the right amounts of spice, humor and heart then I highly recommend you check out the Briar Creek series, Ms. Miles characters are sure to treat you to a truly blissful literary escape!!
This is the the first time I’ve read Olivia Miles and I liked her writing style so much that I will continue reading her work. The book is based in a small town with little to no angst and the characters and secondary characters are memorable with a HEA.
Ivy Birch is a florist in a small town and her memory of a kiss with a sexy ER doctor at her best friend’s wedding is consuming all of her time and interrupting her work. Ivy has a condition known as diabetes that she has kept secret from everyone, she is at the hospital for a check-up when she has a run in with Dr. Brett Hastings, her sexy ER doctor. It’s been 6 long months with no contact and now he is back in town….
Dr. Brett Hastings has returned to his small hometown for a interview at the local hospital when he runs into Ivy. He cannot let her distract him from his work or much less get involved when he plans on leaving town again. A hospital fundraiser throws the two together, they enjoy each others company, share secrets, and become involved. But Love? It cannot happen for Brett, he doesn’t want to hurt her and has tried to keep her at a distance but Ivy’s personalty draws him in and soon she will have his heart blooming with Love as well!