Ava Mason is sassy and sure of herself. Everybody in Bellaire, a quiet, snowy hamlet in northern Lower Michigan, knows her by attitude if not the bright auburn color of her hair. She’s been holding on to a specific dream since she was a teenager, and her chance to make it come true is finally here. There’s just one problem… Griffin Holden was living a big city life full of glitz, glamour, and the accolades that come from associating with the richest businessmen in the state, and then it all came crashing down around him…literally. He decides he needs to take refuge in the one place no one will go looking for his grandfather’s farm. Ava is just waiting for the Holden Farm to go to auction so she can build the bed and breakfast of her dreams. Griffin doesn’t know what he wants to do with his late grandfather’s property, but he does know that the woman who keeps hanging around telling him what to do with it is a mouthy nightmare. They’re two opposites determined to take charge of the same property. What could possibly go wrong? More importantly, what could possibly go right?
The narrator is good but the story is not. The heroine was not likable from the beginning. She wrote lies about the hero before he came to town because she wanted his farm, which made people in the town hate him. They became intimate and fell in love, and we learn that the heroine’s mother was abusive. While I was sympathetic for heroine, I still didn’t like her. The hero felt weak. The story was fine.
This series really came together in this book! There was quite a bit of crossover with previous characters which is one of the best aspects of small town romance series writing.
3.75…this is the third in the series. I live the plots and the banter, the FMC’s rambling and love of all things Halloween. Again, however, the main characters’ insecurities are very repetitive, and I wanted to move through them more with more storyline. Loved the cats and Halloween theme 🤗