Hideaway by the Sea (Oak Island 1) by LP Dover-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 27, 2023

Everleigh Abbott – born and bred in Oak Island, N.C. – always had a dream of going off to college and making a difference in the world.

Presented with the opportunity to attend the university with the top surgical program in the country, she couldn’t pass it up. Even though it meant leaving her family and Jensen McLean – the man she loved – behind. The couple knew the distance would come between them, yet Jensen had no choice but to stay in Oak Island and take over his family’s business.

Twelve years later, Everleigh’s a well-respected neurosurgeon in Boston and living the life she’s always wanted. However, when her grandmother passes, Everleigh learns she’s been left everything, including the beach house. What she soon realizes is that there are secrets hidden within the house, secrets that could change everything. It all leads to a tragic past that brings Everleigh face to face with her only regret.

Jensen McLean has devoted his life to making his family business the best on the North Carolina coast. When he finds out Everleigh is back in town, he refuses to waste the chance to see her again. More than anything he longs to show her what she’s missed and help her realize Oak Island is her true home. Little do either of them know, the mysteries hidden at the beach house will reveal truths that connect them in ways they never thought possible.

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REVIEW: HIDEAWAY BY THE SEA is the first instalment in LP Dover’s contemporary, adult OAK ISLAND romance series. This is thirty-four year olds, Neurosurgeon Everleigh Abbott, and charter boat operator Jensen McLean’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Everleigh and Jensen) HIDEAWAY BY THE SEA follows in the wake of the death of Everleigh Abbott’s beloved grandmother. Everleigh’s return to Oak Island NC, a place she hadn’t returned to in close to twelve years but Everleigh’s reasons included one very important person, the man whose heart she broken twelve years earlier. Enter Jensen McLean, the man Everleigh has never been able to forget. Everleigh’s return to Oak Island comes with memories from the past, not only her memories but the memories of another woman who had loved and lost. What ensues is the rebuilding romance and relationship between Everleigh and Jensen, and the potential fall-out as Everleigh must come to a decision about her future, going forward.

Twelve years earlier, Jensen’s heart was destroy when the woman he loved walked out of his life, without looking back. Months and years would pass; Everleigh never came home, and Jensen moved on with his life but the death of Everleigh’s grandmother meant a second chance for our story line couple, a second chance for a new beginning or picking up where they left off. There are no $ex scenes.

We are introduced to Everleigh’s parents, as well as her best friend and fellow physician Dr. Nyla Clarke, and several citizens of Oak Island, North Carolina.

HIDEAWAY BY THE SEA is a story of second chances; a rekindling romance focusing on family and friendships, forgiveness and love. The premise is sweet and impassioned; the romance is tender but mostly implied.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author L. P. Dover is a southern belle living in North Carolina with her husband and two beautiful girls. Before she began her literary journey she worked in periodontics, enjoying the wonderment of dental surgeries.

She loves to write, but she also loves to play tennis, go on mountain hikes and white water rafting, and has a passion for singing. Her two youngest fans expect a concert each and every night before bedtime, usually Christmas carols.

Dover has written countless novels, including her Forever Fae series, the Second Chances series, the Gloves Off series, the Armed & Dangerous series, the Royal Shifters series, the Society X series, the Circle of Justice series, and her standalone novel Love, Lies, and Deception. Her favorite genre to read and write is romantic suspense, but if she got to choose a setting in which to live, it would be with her faeries in the Land of the Fae.

L.P. Dover is represented by Marisa Corvisiero of Corvisiero Literary Agency and Italia Gandolfo of Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management for dramatic rights.