Carolina Breeze

Carolina Breeze is the middle book of the Bluebell Inn series by Denise Hunter.   Levi, Molly, and Grace are siblings who have inherited the Bluebell Inn, and are in the opening of the second season when they have a single guest who rented out the whole Inn for a honeymoon week.  Mia Emerson is an up-and-coming movie star who has been the victim of some false publicity orchestrated by the wife of a co-star of the movie she just finished filming.  

Because Mia's ex-fiance had already paid for the week at Bluebell Inn, Mia decides to leave town to get away from the negative press and go to the Inn and use up the week that has already been paid for.  The Ex had also arranged for Levi to be chauffeur for the week they were in North Carolina; and because of that proximity, Levi and Mia become attracted to each other.  Mia's grandparents had once owned the Inn and it was a bit of searching for family/nostalgia. 

This book includes it all: a treasure hunt, paparazzi, sibling conflict, break ups and make ups.   The characters are significantly developed and move the plot at a steady pace.  It is one of those books that is hard to put down.  I stayed up way too late (early?) reading the book to finish it off.  It is the story of Levi's and Mia's romance and a continuation of Molly's and Adam's romance.  I am assuming the next one in the series will be Grace's romance.  

This is a five star book, with two thumbs up, and a personal chauffeur for a week. 

Thomas Nelson and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review.  The opinions expressed are my own.