Ciara Knight writes sweet books that entertain for a while. Creekside is a small town in the Smoky Mountains, where everyone knows everyone else's business. She has put into this book a few throw-away characters, where the reader sees them once and then not again for the rest of the book. I am not sure how I feel about this, there may have been a better way to set up the situation. But I am not an author, so I don't know.
Keith has been furloughed from his job as a deep-sea fisherman in the South Pacific, so he has come home for the first time in three years. His mother is so happy to see him, but she's a helicopter parent of the highest degree. His first act upon reaching town is to find a little boy whose mother is looking for him. He is disheveled, looking like a wooly bear, and she believes that he is harming her son. Once an understanding is reached between them, they become friends. When the boy's mother, Noelle, loses her nanny for her son, Keith offers to stand in for a short time until she can find a new nanny for her son.
Some kinks that are thrown in for good measure are an old girlfriend, old hurts, and Keith's intrusive mother, but the road to true love is never smooth or easy. Throughout the whole book, Keith insists that he's going back to fishing and wasn't staying around. But, the more he gets to know Noelle and her son, the more inviting it has become for Keith to stay around. The ending of the book leaves some loose ends untied. And that leaves me with an unsatisfied feeling when I finished the book. For that reason alone, I can give this four stars. The book is an enjoyable, sweet read.
Author Collective 20 and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review. All opinions expressed are solely my own.
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