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The Northbeach Romances #2
The Love of Julia
Steph Underwood was always career focussed. She had to be.
In the cutthroat world of high-stakes journalism, the job has to absorb you. There can't be anything to distract you from the next scoop, the next clue, the next story. That suited Steph just fine.
She’s done everything possible to keep her personal life private. Unfortunately, that means when her girlfriend leaves her, Steph has no one to lean on. Then Julia Demendo pushes her way in, like any intrepid journalist, and places herself as the one friend Steph can rely on.
But friendships can be hard enough among coworkers without falling in love with them. Steph must weave her way carefully as the new boss, juggling a major murder story, adding to her news team, and learning to date all over again.
Can she do it all without letting her attraction to Julia win out? Or will her feelings topple her carefully constructed persona?
In the cutthroat world of high-stakes journalism, the job has to absorb you. There can't be anything to distract you from the next scoop, the next clue, the next story. That suited Steph just fine.
She’s done everything possible to keep her personal life private. Unfortunately, that means when her girlfriend leaves her, Steph has no one to lean on. Then Julia Demendo pushes her way in, like any intrepid journalist, and places herself as the one friend Steph can rely on.
But friendships can be hard enough among coworkers without falling in love with them. Steph must weave her way carefully as the new boss, juggling a major murder story, adding to her news team, and learning to date all over again.
Can she do it all without letting her attraction to Julia win out? Or will her feelings topple her carefully constructed persona?
180 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 28, 2021
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February 21, 2021
Steph is dumped by her live-in girlfriend of five years and gets a big promotion the next day. So she's tempted by the flirtatious Julia, but wary of an office romance and does not want to repeat the mistakes of her last relationship. It's a solid setup, and unlike many romances the relationship proceeds in a relatively conventional matter - there is a lot of dating.
There's a secondary plotline involving a possible serial killer, and the characters, journalists, are paying attention for both personal and professional reasons. However, that part of the story doesn't play the role I expected, and it may be because this book is the second in a series. It appears that's a plotline carried over from the first book, but I have not read that one.
There are a reasonable number of steamy scenes, and a few surprises - enough to keep my interest even though I was not always sympathetic to Steph.
There's a secondary plotline involving a possible serial killer, and the characters, journalists, are paying attention for both personal and professional reasons. However, that part of the story doesn't play the role I expected, and it may be because this book is the second in a series. It appears that's a plotline carried over from the first book, but I have not read that one.
There are a reasonable number of steamy scenes, and a few surprises - enough to keep my interest even though I was not always sympathetic to Steph.
April 13, 2021
Good Story
Coming out is different for each of us. Some have it harder than others. But when the time is right it can be the absolute best/hardest thing you've ever done. Good story!
Coming out is different for each of us. Some have it harder than others. But when the time is right it can be the absolute best/hardest thing you've ever done. Good story!
February 13, 2021
Brilliant and engaging.
September 13, 2022
Julia's turn
This sequel may be the Julia story but in the end, it is really so much more a book about Steph's journey. & it's as good as the first.
This sequel may be the Julia story but in the end, it is really so much more a book about Steph's journey. & it's as good as the first.
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