Ready for more love and adventure after 40? Forty-three year old Jenny Beckett has just renovated eight rustic guest cabins on beautiful Heron Lake, North Carolina. Brand new to the inn keeping business, she is struggling to make The Lakeside Resort profitable. Wrangling guests like The Fighting Couple, persnickety attorneys, and the curvy gals from the Fabulous You Fitness Week keep her on her … her toes. Jenny’s business isn’t her only problem. Her mother and stepfather have just moved in for an extended stay. Startling developments with her possible fiancé, Luke, make Jenny question his commitment to her. An all-gal camping trip in her old Airstream lifts her spirits, but Jenny still has doubts about whether she and Luke can make their love work. After all the heartache she’s had, can Jenny learn to trust love again and finally find her happily ever after?
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It was an enjoyable read,especially if you have just read a very intense book.
These are cute stories and perfect for those times when an easy, breezy read is called for. Our heroine, Jenny, needs to get a little more back bone and self confidence. She is too old for such angst over a man. She is a successful business woman…own it.
Not much substance….a little boring and predictable
This was a fun read. I love books with strong women, who go after their dreams!
This is an easy summer read. Not much substance, but friendly characters and an interesting premise.
Such a lovely story! Can’t wait for the next one!
enny has finished with the rustic cabins and is ready to get business started. She is assisted by her friend Charlotte who has help with the cabins and is now finishing with her Airstream so that they might be able to travel in it at some point. She request some assistance from people around her and a group of online friends about how to attract guest . They love the dogs Buddy and Bear and her Mini Horse Levi. They bring a lot to the resort. It certainly helps she has several colorful guest including her mom and stepdad who have to come and stay a bit. Then there is Luke her boyfriend who she hopes is the one she will spend her life with. He has been ask to handle some business overseas after his partner in business is injured and cannot travel. This causes some tension in their relationship. Things at Lakeside Resort are looking up so now to see if she can work out things with Luke. I have had the pleasure of reading both of the books in this series and enjoyed them both. Being from the South Carolina I enjoy reading books about our Southern areas and this one doesn’t disappoint.
Favorite Quotes:
I think I’ll go slather myself with Ben Gay so my muscles won’t freeze up on me like the tin man.
Australians had been credited with inventing the black box flight recorder, the cochlear implant, and the electronic pacemaker. She groaned internally as she read on. Son of a biscuit. They’d also invented box wine. That was genius.
I hope you remember the girl you were, the one who rode bikes fearlessly, got dirty, and didn’t give a fig about how you looked.
“My legs and arms are white as rice, and I still have my winter weight.” Her thighs reminded her of rice pudding.
When she got back to their campsite, Charlotte was outside frying bacon on an electric skillet. Jenny sniffed. “Someone should make a perfume that smells like that.” “Men and dogs would just follow you around,” Charlotte said.
My Review:
Jenny was highly focused and working hard to get her resort fully operational but being a one-woman operation, she was anxious about balancing her money, time, and energy and was grateful to have her new love for support – but did she? Luke was called away on business to Australia and highly distracted by his new project during the rare phone connections. Luke was a kind and gentle man but he wasn’t much for discussing feelings and seemed to be as attentive and romantic as a frozen fish stick.
After reading several taut thrillers, I enjoyed the leisurely pace, real-world issues, subtle levity, rustic feel, and down-home flavors such as the name of the general store – Gus’s Gas-N-Git -, which was, smirk-worthy. While slow in pace, the storylines were easy to follow, realistic, wryly written, and chaste enough for my elderly mother’s church ladies’ book club, which is indeed a rare find on my reading list. 😉