Buchman had me at page one. Entertaining and full of emotion throughout the entire tale. –Fresh Fiction “Where Dreams Are Born”-a Where Dreams romance (formerly Angelo’s Hearth)——One calendar. Twelve lighthouses. Two hearts.Cassidy Knowles, the nation’s fastest rising food-and-wine critic. Her father, a small-time vintner, leaves a final gift: a calendar of Pacific Northwest lighthouses, a … Northwest lighthouses, a dozen thin letters, and a deathbed promise to visit one each month. She can handle that.
Russell Morgan, #28 on the latest “most eligible” list and the last guy on the planet Cassidy wants. Fine with him. She’s an over-privileged little twit. He sets his own course by a friend’s calendar of lighthouses. A sailing voyage that keeps guiding him to the one woman in all Seattle who irritates him the most.
Where can two hearts chart the same course? Where Dreams Are Born, in the warmth around Angelo’s Hearth.
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Readers will relish this entertaining contemporary. –Midwest Book Reviews “Where Dreams Unfold”
Top 5 Romance of 2012 –NPR “I Own the Dawn”
Top 10 Romance of 2012 –Booklist “The Night is Mine”
Best 5 Romance of 2013 –Barnes & Noble “Take Over at Midnight”
Best 10 Romance of Spring 2014 –Publishers Weekly “Pure Heat”
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Having spent 40 years in Seattle and knowing the locations described in this book, I was blown away by the memories it brought back because of the accurately lyrical descriptions given. Buchman captures the essence of the Puget Sound area including sailing from Shilshole marina and in particular the Alki Lighthouse. I grew up a few blocks away. Thank you for bringing back some very nice memories – this was so special for me.
This is a standalone read with a HEA. The hero is a professional photographer in N.Y. He is quite successful but burnt out. He is tired of the life he is living and he wants whatever it is that is missing. He sells everything and moves to Washington State to be close to his best friend. He buys an old sailboat and starts rebuilding it so that he can sail across the ocean. He is sailing the Puget Sound for experience. His friend gave him a calendar with 12 lighthouses so he plans to visit one a month.
The heroine has just lost her father. it was just the two of them. He ran a vineyard and he taught her everything he knew about grapes. She took that information and her natural ability to taste and tell where it came from and what wine it was. She made a career out of writing articles about food and wine. Her home was in Puget Sound and when her father became ill she moved back home from N.Y. to be with him. He left her a calendar of lighthouses and instructions to visit one a month and to open a letter he had written to her while visiting.
This is a great story. You can see where it is going. however these two dislike each other on sight and it is a while before they discover what fate has in store for them. I definitely recommend this book.