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Forrester Square #10
Come Fly With Me
July 19, 1983...
The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers - Seattle's Kennedys. Their 'compound' - elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart.
Twenty years later...
Nursery owner Katherine Kinard longed for love, marriage and children of her own. But when a Seattle sperm bank seemed her only option, fate intervened - a fender-bender with Nick Spencer...on her way to the clinic. The Alaskan bush pilot quickly offered marriage - and a ready-made family. But what about love?
Nick hadn't had much experience with love - except for his children. He'd been raised in foster care, and his first marriage had been for mutual convenience. But Nick knew if he could convince Katherine to come to Alaska, she'd fall in love with his precious little girls, with the beauty of the land...and, in time, with him.
The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers - Seattle's Kennedys. Their 'compound' - elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart.
Twenty years later...
Nursery owner Katherine Kinard longed for love, marriage and children of her own. But when a Seattle sperm bank seemed her only option, fate intervened - a fender-bender with Nick Spencer...on her way to the clinic. The Alaskan bush pilot quickly offered marriage - and a ready-made family. But what about love?
Nick hadn't had much experience with love - except for his children. He'd been raised in foster care, and his first marriage had been for mutual convenience. But Nick knew if he could convince Katherine to come to Alaska, she'd fall in love with his precious little girls, with the beauty of the land...and, in time, with him.
256 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2004
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About the author
Jill Shalvis
388 books13.8k followersJill Shalvis is a NYT, USA Today, and Amazon Top 100 bestselling author of small-town romance and romcoms, known for big feels, found family, and plenty of shenanigans.
If you love small-town chaos, meddling friends and neighbors, sizzling chemistry, and heroes who fall hard for the one woman they absolutely did not plan on, you’re in the right place. Jill’s books blend laugh-out-loud moments with emotional gut punches, slow-burn tension, and deeply earned happily ever afters.
She writes the stories she loves to read: small-town romance and romantic comedies packed with heart, heat, second chances, grumpy/sunshine sparks, and the kind of found-family vibes that make you want to move right into the pages. Many of her series are perfect for binge-reading, and a number of her books are available in Kindle Unlimited and at major retailers.
When she’s not writing, she’s probably plotting new ways to torture her characters, avoiding laundry, or daydreaming about fictional men and the strong, complicated women who bring them to their knees—and then making them work for it.
You can follow Jill here on Goodreads to keep up with new releases, add her books to your shelves, and discover which small town you want to get lost in next.
If you love small-town chaos, meddling friends and neighbors, sizzling chemistry, and heroes who fall hard for the one woman they absolutely did not plan on, you’re in the right place. Jill’s books blend laugh-out-loud moments with emotional gut punches, slow-burn tension, and deeply earned happily ever afters.
She writes the stories she loves to read: small-town romance and romantic comedies packed with heart, heat, second chances, grumpy/sunshine sparks, and the kind of found-family vibes that make you want to move right into the pages. Many of her series are perfect for binge-reading, and a number of her books are available in Kindle Unlimited and at major retailers.
When she’s not writing, she’s probably plotting new ways to torture her characters, avoiding laundry, or daydreaming about fictional men and the strong, complicated women who bring them to their knees—and then making them work for it.
You can follow Jill here on Goodreads to keep up with new releases, add her books to your shelves, and discover which small town you want to get lost in next.
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November 4, 2019
Cute story, although unrealistic. Still a fun read.
February 12, 2023
2003 - PB - Had It -Read It
June 24, 2015
It's really, really hard for me to rate and review this book. Half of me wants to rate it a 2-star and half of me wants to call it a 4 or 5-star, so I've compromised with 3.
If I had read this book as a single title, I'd have rated it 4. If these were characters I'd never met, it would have been a very nice tale. But in the context of the Forrester Square series, the idea of Katherine Kinard, who's just - less than a year ago - opened the day-care of her dreams, whose brother has just married and whose father has just gotten out of prison after twenty years, abandoning her life and her new business to go live in Alaska...it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Some may read this and think that I don't understand Katherine. You may be right. I read her rationalisations for moving to Alaska, how she fell in love with Nick's kids and with the countryside, how she finally felt like she didn't have to look after her friends and family, etc. But I guess I don't understand this. I don't understand how a woman whose father has been in prison for two decades could leave him as soon as he gets out. I don't understand how a woman could start up a business that she adores with her two best friends and then decide to up and leave and sell her share of the business so she can get married and move in with a man who never even considered moving to be with her, regardless of the fact that his career is much more flexible - they do need pilots in Washington - than hers.
I've read all sixteen books in the Forrester Square series, and I've noticed that this is a pattern. In almost all of the books, if there's a big relocation and change in lifestyle to be made, it's the woman who makes it. I'm no rabid feminist (I guess I'm sort of a low-key feminist) but out of sixteen books, I count six books where nobody had to relocate, two where the man moved in with the woman (and one of those was Ethan in Keeping Faith, a basically homeless mercenary) and eight where the woman changed her life and moved to fit in with the man's. I'd like to see a little more equality than 8:2.
Katherine's willingness to leave her whole life behind upset me more than most, though, and it made it really hard to enjoy this book - or indeed, the rest in the series.
As I said, if it hadn't been part of a series that focused on Katherine and the daycare center, I'd have enjoyed the book a lot more. There were plenty of things I liked about it. I've adored Katherine since the first Forrester Square book I picked up, and while Nick isn't anything like the kind of man I'd imagined her ending up with, I found their relationship sweet and convincing. The sex was hot and plentiful without overshadowing the rest of the book. Carlos, Katherine's foster son, was probably my favourite part - he utterly charmed me. I'd like to have seen a bit more of Hannah and Alexandra and the relationship between the two women, but what was there was nice.
But the thought of Katherine opening Forrester Square Day care, creating this beautiful little world, and then blithely leaving it behind a year later breaks my heart.
YMMV, of course. Some of you will not be as attached to the Katherine-Hannah-Alexandra miniature world as I am, and will be perfectly happy to let Katherine go like this. Me, I'll stick to books 1-9.
If I had read this book as a single title, I'd have rated it 4. If these were characters I'd never met, it would have been a very nice tale. But in the context of the Forrester Square series, the idea of Katherine Kinard, who's just - less than a year ago - opened the day-care of her dreams, whose brother has just married and whose father has just gotten out of prison after twenty years, abandoning her life and her new business to go live in Alaska...it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Some may read this and think that I don't understand Katherine. You may be right. I read her rationalisations for moving to Alaska, how she fell in love with Nick's kids and with the countryside, how she finally felt like she didn't have to look after her friends and family, etc. But I guess I don't understand this. I don't understand how a woman whose father has been in prison for two decades could leave him as soon as he gets out. I don't understand how a woman could start up a business that she adores with her two best friends and then decide to up and leave and sell her share of the business so she can get married and move in with a man who never even considered moving to be with her, regardless of the fact that his career is much more flexible - they do need pilots in Washington - than hers.
I've read all sixteen books in the Forrester Square series, and I've noticed that this is a pattern. In almost all of the books, if there's a big relocation and change in lifestyle to be made, it's the woman who makes it. I'm no rabid feminist (I guess I'm sort of a low-key feminist) but out of sixteen books, I count six books where nobody had to relocate, two where the man moved in with the woman (and one of those was Ethan in Keeping Faith, a basically homeless mercenary) and eight where the woman changed her life and moved to fit in with the man's. I'd like to see a little more equality than 8:2.
Katherine's willingness to leave her whole life behind upset me more than most, though, and it made it really hard to enjoy this book - or indeed, the rest in the series.
As I said, if it hadn't been part of a series that focused on Katherine and the daycare center, I'd have enjoyed the book a lot more. There were plenty of things I liked about it. I've adored Katherine since the first Forrester Square book I picked up, and while Nick isn't anything like the kind of man I'd imagined her ending up with, I found their relationship sweet and convincing. The sex was hot and plentiful without overshadowing the rest of the book. Carlos, Katherine's foster son, was probably my favourite part - he utterly charmed me. I'd like to have seen a bit more of Hannah and Alexandra and the relationship between the two women, but what was there was nice.
But the thought of Katherine opening Forrester Square Day care, creating this beautiful little world, and then blithely leaving it behind a year later breaks my heart.
YMMV, of course. Some of you will not be as attached to the Katherine-Hannah-Alexandra miniature world as I am, and will be perfectly happy to let Katherine go like this. Me, I'll stick to books 1-9.
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February 15, 2016
Come Fly With Me by Jill Shalvis is a fun read. Ms Shalvis has supplied us with a well written book with lovable characters. Katherine and Nick's story is full of drama, humor and steam. I can't decide what I like best about this book, the awesome characters or the humor. I enjoyed Come Fly With Me and look forward to reading more from Jill Shalvis in the future. Come Fly With Me is part of the Forrester Square Series but can be read as a standalone. This is a complete book, not a cliff-hanger.
I bought a copy of this book from a library sale.
I bought a copy of this book from a library sale.
June 18, 2012
I always enjoy a book by Jill Shalvis, and this was no different. I was immediately in love with both characters and the supporting secondary characters. The objective of the man trying to convince her to move to Alaska with him was enjoyable. It was a relatively light read, both characters fell in love mighty quick, but I loved the journey they traveled together. I really enjoyed Carlos, her foster child.
January 5, 2014
I do like Jill Shalvis's writing, but I had trouble sympathizing with the heroine, who seemed a little too perfect to be real. And obviously she isn't real, because she is a character in a book, but I didn't want to continuously be pulled out of the story by all the perfect. Oh well.
November 20, 2008
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escapism
i did learn about NW USA geography and a little on Alaska
escapism
i did learn about NW USA geography and a little on Alaska
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