Lake Haven, #2
by Julia London
Releasing November 8th 2016
Montlake Romance
Montlake Romance
From The Book Junkie Reads . . . Suddenly
Dating (Lake Haven, #2) . . .
I would call it a second chance at
romance and first steps to true first lasting love. Lola and Harry have both
been through a lot. Both needing time to heal and move on. Lola works to make
her novel a realization and gather herself for dating. Harry just needs to get
away and forget. Two different people
with two different friends, two different goals, and one single house for the
summer.
Lola looks to make her dreams come
true with her writing career. While at the same time trying to attain a mentor that
could make the difference in success or failure. Harry has a similar goal but
with a successful developer. There was more than just work going on here. The
had fun getting to know each other while interacting with the people of East
Beach.
What I found was a sweet-tempered
romance that built over the course of their varied interactions. The was
laughter along the way to new friendship and them maybe more. Looking for a
sweet, simple, summer romance pick up the newest edition to the Lake Haven
series.
**This ARC was provided via NetGalley in exchange for an
honest review.**
Lake Haven series:
Suddenly
in Love – Lake Haven, #1
Suddenly
Dating – Lake Haven, #2
Blurb
If only Lola Dunne had the time—and the courage—she’d write her novel, and maybe even start dating again. When her friend offers the use of her summer home overlooking Lake Haven, Lola sees the chance to focus on herself for a change, and she eagerly accepts.
If only Lola Dunne had the time—and the courage—she’d write her novel, and maybe even start dating again. When her friend offers the use of her summer home overlooking Lake Haven, Lola sees the chance to focus on herself for a change, and she eagerly accepts.
Engineer
Harry Westbrook is waiting for his ship to come in. But it’s not happening soon
enough for his girlfriend, who’s left him for good…again. To nurse Harry’s
heartache, his pal extends an invite to his lake house in East Beach.
When it
turns out that Harry’s and Lola’s friends are a divorcing,
not-on-speaking-terms couple sparring over the same house, the strangers find
themselves accidental (and reluctant) roommates for the summer. They agree to
make the best of it, even posing as a couple to mingle among East Beach’s
well-heeled crowd. But the ruse is starting to feel real—and romantic. Are they
brave enough to reveal their feelings before the summer nights turn cold?
Chapter One Excerpt
New
York City April
The first
time Melissa broke
up with Harry
was on a Wednesday night, because Harry had come home later
than he’d
said he would. Okay, a lot later. Late-late. But
he couldn’t help it—his crew had run
into a problem installing a support beam under a bridge and it had taken a
colossal effort by dozens of men to right that sinking ship.
When he walked into their
little apartment, he knew he was in trouble.
Melissa was sitting at the bistro
table with an empty wine bottle before her and the dregs of said bottle
in her glass. There was a plate
of food in Harry’s spot:
congealed spaghetti and something else he didn’t
want to examine too closely. “I’m sorry—”
“I don’t want to hear it,” she
snapped with a queenly flick of her wrist. “I’m done.”
Done. What did that mean, exactly? For the evening? With him? Harry
wanted to ask, but as he was a veteran of this relationship, he knew better
than to seek clarification when that much wine obviously had been drunk.
Melissa’s blue eyes narrowed;
she knew he didn’t know what she meant. She came to her feet. Clumsily. And
swaying a little when she pushed her long dark hair back over her shoulder. She
had on a very short skirt and heels that made her look hot, and, God, Harry
wished he’d made it home on time.
“I’ve had it with
you, Harry. You’re
always late. You come in looking
like some Game of Thrones character
with your shaggy hair and your dirty clothes,” she said, gesturing wildly in
his direction.
“Well . . . I
work in bridge construction,” he said calmly.
“It’s kind of a dirty job. I apologize
for my hair, but you know that I wear a hard
hat most of the day.”
“So you can’t get a haircut?” she cried, and pitched forward,
catch- ing herself on the table.
This was the first he knew that his hair was an issue.
He dug in his pocket for a
hair band and pulled it back into a short tail.
“Oh, yeah, that works,”
she snapped. “Here’s the thing, Harry. You do
whatever you want,” she sang,
casting her arm wide, “and then you expect me to sit here and wait with a dinner I slaved over.”
Here they went with the same sort of argument they’d been having
a lot lately. “I don’t expect you to wait, Melissa. That’s why I told you to go ahead without
me,” he reminded her. “And, to be fair, it’s spaghetti.”
Fire leapt into her blue eyes.
“Not that I don’t appreciate it,” he hastily added. Jesus, he didn’t want to do this right now.
He was tired, he was hungry, and
that damn support beam was going
to cost him more money
he didn’t have.
Author Info
Julia London is the New York Times, USA Today,
and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of more than thirty romance novels.
Her historical titles include the popular Desperate Debutantes series, the
Secrets of Hadley Green series, and the Cabot Sisters series; her contemporary
works include the Lake Haven, Pine River, and Cedar Springs series. She has won
the RT Bookclub Award for Best Historical Romance and has been a six-time
finalist for the prestigious RITA Award for excellence in romantic fiction. She
lives in Austin, Texas.
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