Unexpected Vacation

by Jennah Scott

The one thing Savannah didn’t plan for on her wedding day was to be left standing alone at the altar. Runaway bride? Try runaway groom.

Haley had planned to stand at her best friend’s side through sickness and health, for richer or poorer…not to mention watching the woman she fell in love with marry a man she barely gets along with.

After Savannah’s wedding day falls apart Haley has to push all her intimate desires to the side and be the supportive friend she knows Savannah needs. But was suggesting they turn her would-be honeymoon into a vacation to Bora Bora her brightest idea?

When emotions boil over, desires are shared—hello, nipple play and oral teasing—and the sun and sand beckon. And two women discover they need each other more than they realized.

A Romantica® LGBT female/female erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave

82 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 6, 2014

About the author

Born and raised in Texas, Jennah is a transplant to Missouri long enough ago she should probably consider that her hometown. But she will forever be a Texan. She loves to write any story that will make a reader smile, laugh, and maybe even cry (although you won't ever hear her admit that she cries). Whether the next story she writes is contemporary, urban fantasy, LGBT, or whatever other crazy idea she comes up with, there will always be love and romance in the midst of trials and turmoil.

When she's not writing you can find her on Twitter, with her family, or buried in a book trying to escape reality for just a minute.

Reviews

[Justina Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are few things more painful than being left at the altar. Savannah is all decked out in a perfectly dazzling wedding gown waiting to say her final vows, when the guy she thought she knew and loved bolts. Awfulness personified! How does she pick up the pieces? It helps that her maid of honor is also her bestest friend. She scrambles to get the honeymoon of all honeymoons that she had booked for Savannah re-shuffled so the rebuffed bride and maid of honor can just take a truly pure, recuperative, and simple vacation. Certainly helps when your bestest friend is a travel agent, too. There is one potentially major complication. Savannah's best friend is hopelessly in love with her. Oh my! This should be a very interesting, unexpected vacation. Let the healing begin!

Savannah Montero is plus-size only because the definition says size fourteen is the start of *plus sizes*. What Savannah certainly has is a plus-size heart! She and her best friend sort of...kind of...experimented in college with being gently intimate with each other. Savannah feels and knows she has a connection to Haley, but has either downplayed it or filed it away as a college thing. Well, with the catastrophe at her wedding and then actually converting her honeymoon into an unexpected vacation, she has tried to come to terms with her feelings for her best friend. The recuperative time away at an ideal, exotic honeymoon location produces all manner of enlightenments and insights. I definitely liked Savannah as her feeling stature just expanded and solidified. Extraordinary!

Haley treasures that experimental intimacy she shared with Savannah during their college years and savors its memory. Actually, no one has come close to Savannah for the all the women and a few guys with whom she has had a relationship. When Savannah's wedding collapses in a most painful way, Haley cannot deny that she experiences a resurgence of hope. She knows she has to keep that locked away while she helps her best friend recover from this nearly devastating public humiliation. However, Haley does not have the best reputation for editing her emotional outbursts and often cringes with trepidation about how her latest foot-in-mouth event might impact everyone in the vicinity. Haley is just one superlatively delightful and passionate person. I simply loved her, while crossing my fingers and sending many prayers to the powers that be that she can connect to the embers of love she has nurtured in her heart for years and years. Spectacular!

Bora Bora is really one amazing vacation spot. Somewhat unfortunately, it takes four plane hops to get there and Savannah gets rather nervous when flying. So many lows and highs pop up throughout this story giving it such a natural and entertaining quality. This is a novella bursting with emotional events and yet some purely fine fun. I recommend it for its unexpectedly satisfying highs, lows, twists, and turns. It is satisfyingly engaging. Charming!


NOTE: This book was provided by Ellora's Cave Publishing for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews.

[Lex Kent · Rating 3 out of 5]

2 1/2 Stars. I'm not really big on short stories (unless they contain characters for a previous book or series) I just don't think they give you enough time to get to know the characters. But since this was more novella length, I thought I would give it a shot. Unfortunately, I still was not able to connect with the characters. I found them to be extremely wish-washy, both characters inner conversations constantly changed from one extreme to the next. We can only be friends to you're the love of my life, if we sleep together we are doomed to I need to sleep with you now. The back and forth was constant with both characters. I know the author was trying for some angst, but it was through the whole story and became exhausting.
I also found the beginning very hard to read. I had no idea, half the time, who was talking when. There was just not enough dialog tags used, so I found myself re-reading passages just trying to make sense of things.
I was hoping for a sweet little novella, with some passion and and interesting story-line. Instead I'm left feeling disappointed.

[Samaris Creech · Rating 5 out of 5]

Getting left at the altar can do crazy things to a woman or it may just help her find her true bliss. Savannah was having doubts before walking down the aisle but NEVER in her wildest dreams did she think that her fiancé would be the one to actually stop the dang wedding. Haley has been Savannah’s best friend for years. If she had it her way they would be more but the timing was never right. Now that Savannah’s fiancé has left her maybe they can finally have their chance. Haley convinces Savannah to take what would have been her honeymoon trip with her instead and turn it into a vacation to get her away from all the prying eyes after the stunt mark pulled. The trip turns out to be one full of revelations for both of them. Will Savannah finally be able to admit her true feelings for Haley? Will Haley let her guard down long enough to let Savannah at least try? Can they make their relationship work?

[Kerry Adrienne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked up this book to read on vacation--and it was a sweet beach read. I honestly hadn't noticed it was f/f so I was pleasantly surprised at how the beginning played out! lol. I loved that the story was such a heartfelt tale--with passion. I believed in the characters, which is so important to me in books I read. The motivations felt real, true.

The only thing I would have loved more of is scene and setting in Bora Bora! Such a unique setting and I wanted more beach time! (Maybe because I was at the beach when reading the book)

I look forward to reading more from this author. <3

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really quick, but sweet friends-to-lovers romance. I'm glad I read this one.