A Wedding in Wild Harbor

 

Grace Worthington is known as a "sweet romantic author," and her latest book,  A Wedding in Wild Harbor, bears out the moniker. It is definitely a sweet romance with very human characters, but these very human characters follow the romance novel formula and that detracted from the story for me somewhat.  

Cassandra responds to a man driving across the center line of the highway by overcorrecting and ending up in a corn field.  The man circles back around to pick her up and take her where she needs to go.  Liam, the man, finds out that Cassandra works for the book store in Wild Harbor that he plans to buy and create a high tech gym.  That does not endear him to Cassandra at all. 

Liam's mother has been fighting cancer and has been told she has run out of options for treatment and all she wants for Liam is for him to be married.  She sets up dating profiles, leases a billboard, anything to advertise his single status.  This aggravates Liam to the point that he will enter into a fake relationship with Cassandra in exchange for keeping the bookstore open longer to allow her to turn it around and make it profitable.  It's not really good business sense, but there's something about Cassandra that appeals to him.  The more he learns of Cassandra, the more he likes her, and wants their fake relationship to become something real.  Cassandra is wary of Liam, but he worms his way into her heart, slowly but surely. 

This is the final book in the Wild Harbor series by Grace, and while I haven't read the other books in this series, it stands alone fairly well.    I am sure there are parts I've missed because I haven't read the other books in the series, but I wasn't confused by anything that happened in this book.  It was a quick, entertaining read that fulfilled a need for something lighthearted. 

If it weren't for the formulaic plot, I would have given this book five stars, but it was a bit too predictable, so I give it four stars. 

Poets and Saints Publishing provided the copy I read for this review.  All opinions expressed are solely my own.