Kismet

by Lea Hart

A sexy retired SEAL and a feisty do-gooder play for keeps in this laugh-out-loud small-town romantic romp.

Tancy Foster loves nothing more than helping people. Unfortunately, her fairy godmother side hustle isn’t always welcomed. Or has the results that one would hope for.

Retired SEAL Teague Moriarty often wonders if living next door to Tancy, the Tasmanian Devil do-gooder, will be more perilous than the decade he spent in Special Operations. One thing he’s certain of is that she’s the test he never asked for and the one he may not survive.

Come see what happens when real life meets true love.
KISMET is a massively entertaining grumpy-sunshine frenemies-to-lovers romp.

Genres: Rom Com, Enemies To Lovers, Contemporary

247 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 9, 2022

About the author

Bestselling author Lea Hart writes sexy, feel-good romances. She loves a sharp quip, an icy gin and tonic, and a long walk when the muse disappears. When she’s not writing, she spends time with her family and friends and attempts to stay on top of her TBR pile.

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

"He's not a snarling black ops ghost anymore and could easily find several women worth wooing." Teague's patience with Tancy is put to the test when her social influence brings about a huge attraction that causes women to come out in droves to become customers, coerces the neighbourhood to decorate wildly, takes on causes that are unwinable, just to name a few. He admires her spirit and her ability to live life on her terms. But will he come to long for the "peace and quiet" of military life over her shenanigans? Will this grouchy retired SEAL come to appreciate the fiesty beauty who shakes up his life?

[Merle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another member of the SESL family, this one named Teague Moriarty, has a best friend named Tancy. Her tendency to fish things for everyone makes Teague crazy and they spend time grumbling and fussing at each other. Turns out that Tancy saw through Teague's grumpy to the PTSD underlying it. Hart allows them to swallow their quirks long enough to realize that they are soul mates. Some old friends from various series pop up, including Scott, the football player. I wish they'd have one big party so that they can all intermingle.

[Danielle · Rating 1 out of 5]

I honestly considered not finishing this book because it was so poorly written. The writing was amateurish, the dialogue trite, and the characters flat and one dimensional. There was no character development at all. The drama was anticlimactic and the story was so basic. And this book could benefit from serious editing. Typographical and grammatical errors abound and were a huge distraction, especially when it came to punctuation and inconsistent formatting with dialogue.

[Holly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a terrible story, but the editing drives it way down

I didn’t mind the story, not much conflict going on, but the editing was so bad it was distracting. Sentences that should have read me, instead had men. The quotations for dialog were all over the place, missing in some places, extras on non dialog. This was my first by this author and I won’t seek her out again.

[Nonna 2K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay

If you want a story with no true angst and a lot of positive, food feelings, this is the story for you. Tancy and Teague have a friendship that spans their backyards, married aunts, and the pandemic. They never ventured past friendship, but that’s about to change. This is a no angst story.

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fate

I was looking for a romcom to read while stuck in a hospital bed. This one showed up in my Facebook feed and checked all the comedic relief boxes. What surprised me was the emotional depth and character development. Lea Hart you have a new fan!

[Jeannette · Rating 4 out of 5]

sweet

This was a good book to read. They were sweet and meant to be together for ever. I like this author

[Mel Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG such a good book, Teague and Tancy you can help but love them, the more you read the more you love, laugh at all the antics Tancy gets up too. It’s such a good read you fall in love with both characters from the start. Really good enjoyable read.