Posted: March 23, 2015
Summer in the snow… Restaurant owner Summer Costello, reeling from recent failures in her perfect life, is hiding out in her childhood home. When she finds an injured dog outside in a snowstorm, she calls the local vet, who turns out to be her younger brother Declan’s best friend, gorgeous Nick Logan.
She’s his secret crush–no woman Nick’s dated has matched up to the fantasy of being with Summer, the woman who blazed out of Brookbridge for a new life in London years ago. Now, a dog needs his aid, and despite treacherous conditions he drives out to help. She’ll be there with her boyfriend, and surely his infatuation will have burned itself out?
Stranded in a snowstorm, Summer sizzles with attraction for the man Nick has become. And when Summer confides her long-term relationship is over, and suggests a clandestine fling, is there any way Nick can resist her, even though she’s the one woman Declan warned him to keep away from?
MY REVIEW:
I have to say this was a fun fast moving
short story. The best part is that the
characters were enjoyable, believable, and engaging. You could actually see this very thing
unfolding in your own family or to a friend.
It seems there is always that one friend
that is and always has been an over-achiever.
That never ever saw the bottom rung of a ladder. They were always at the top. No one had to put them there they just were.
Well, that was Summer Costello. She made everything in her life a
competition. She had to be the best at
everything. Most of the time it came
naturally other times she did have put forth a little effort. So, when she told her family she was leaving
Ireland for London to be a chef they knew she would be.
Well it crushed her younger brothers’
friend Nick Logan who Declan knew he had a mad crush on his older sister. Because for as long as he could remember he
had been in love with Summer. He would
watch over her when she got herself in a pickle in those rare times she let her
hair down. So, when he found out the family
was going to London to the opening of her first restaurant he figured this was
his opening.
Nick knew she had a boyfriend but he had
to declare his love once and for all.
That night though she surprised them all by telling them all that this
guy, Michael, that no one liked, she was moving in with him. Nick was crushed and made a decision right
then and there that he was moving on and would no longer pine over her any
longer. Now a year has passed and Nick
is called out to care for an injured dog at the home of Declan’s parents but he
knows they’re in another country visiting Declan.
Nick arrives to find Summer there soon
after and weeding through her lies he finds out she and her ex Michael have
broken up. Yet, she doesn’t tell him the
other big secret nor does he share his darkest secret with her. Can they build enough trust being snowed in
to get to that point? You will have to
read and find out. I totally enjoy this
story. I give this 5 stars. Provided by Net Galley.
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