Just Like Magic (Gossamer Falls 1) by Tara Wyatt-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 17, 2023

Adam Shephard is not in a rut.

So what if he’s forty, single, and still running his family’s Inn? So what if he’s still grieving his father’s death and mourning the spectacular failure of his writing career? His life is perfectly fine, thank you very much. He’s not looking for love or a relationship, no matter what his nosy family thinks. Especially not with a writer from out of town.

Which is fine, because bestselling author Hazel Woodward isn’t looking for love either. She’s just looking for an escape, which is how she winds up in Gossamer Falls, a town where magic feels more than just make believe.

With her deadline looming, Hazel has only a few weeks to submit the first hundred pages of her manuscript or forfeit her hefty advance—which might be a problem, because she’s been living off of it for the past two years. While getting divorced, losing her best friend to a heartbreaking betrayal, and dealing with the worst case of writers block ever known to man. Now, in the picturesque town of Gossamer Falls, while staying at the Shephard Inn, she’s hoping she can put the past behind her and focus on her career.

There’s a reason Adam doesn’t get involved with his guests, even ones with the most amazing brown eyes he’s ever seen. Even ones as gorgeous, smart, and talented as Hazel. Because in the end, they all leave.

But there’s magic in the air, and he can’t watch Hazel struggle. Especially when he just might have the solution to her writer’s block.

Too bad it might cost him his heart.

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REVIEW:JUST LIKE MAGIC is the first instalment in Tara Wyatt’s contemporary, adult GOSSAMER FALLS erotic, romance series. This is thirty-nine year old divorcee and author Hazel Woodward, and forty year old inn manager Adam Shephard’s story line.

Told from omniscient dual third person perspectives (Hazel and Adam) JUST LIKE MAGIC follows author Hazel Woodward as she struggles to write her latest book. Having discovered her husband (and editor) was having an affair; the betrayal of her best friend, and writer’s block as her new companion, Hazel Woodward heads to Gossamer Falls, a place she is hoping to rediscover her muse, and her desire to write. Enter Adam Shephard, the man with whom Hazel will fall in love. Adam is /was a struggling writer whose writing, although critically acclaimed, resulted in little enthusiasm from the public. Meeting Hazel Woodward, and quickly falling in love with the New York writer, Adam finds himself both intrigued and determined to start writing again but the past refuses to let go of our story line heroine, controlling the future between our story line couple. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Hazel and Adam, and the potential fall-out as Hazel’s time in Gossamer Falls comes to a close

The world building introduces the people and secrets of Gossamer Falls. There is a ‘magical’ history to the town, and Shephard’s Inn, and with it, comes the idealistic caution of finding one’s happily ever after.

The relationship between Hazel and Adam is one of immediate attraction but Adam finds himself struggling with a direction in life, at the same time, Hazel battles between head and heart, focusing on her inability to write her next successful release. As Hazel and Adam begin the dance of seduction, our couple will discover their connection is the perfect start to their mutual careers. The $ex scenes are intimate and provocative without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and dynamic secondary and supporting characters including Adam’s extended family of enterprising siblings.

JUST LIKE MAGIC is a story about betrayal and karma, hopes and dreams, family, friendships, relationships and love. The premise is inviting and delightful; the characters are animated and sassy; the romance is spicy and seductive.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Tara Wyatt is an award-winning romantic suspense and contemporary romance author known for her fast-paced writing, humor, and sexy love scenes. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario with the cutest dog in the world and a husband who makes all of her heroes look like chumps.

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