Find My Way Home by Michele Summers – a Review

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Description:
Everyone knows that money can’t buy happiness. The promise of money is even worse. Especially for a small town designer with big dreams. Bertie Anderson is finding out anticipation only buys trouble. When the offer of $150,000 is dropped into her lap for designing one house, she dumps her dreams of leaving town and gets to work. If only she wasn’t so distracted by her hubbalicious client. Why would an ex-pro tennis player move to tiny Harmony, NC?

Keith Morgan is wondering the same thing. Sure, he needs a safe place to raise his daughter, away from the party lifestyle of his past. But does it have to be in a crazy, little town where everyone knows his business? What’s worse is his aunt has given him an ultimatum: get married in three months or risk losing his little girl. Finding a woman is no problem. Parades of them show up at his house like the paparazzi. The problem is he only has eyes for Bertie, his quirky, curvy, maddening designer. And he couldn’t marry her, because this go round he needs to play it safe…and Bertie is anything but safe

Review:
Find My Way Home by Michele Summers is her first book in her new Harmony Homecomings series. Michele Summers has written a wonderfully delightful romance that takes place in a small town, Harmony, North Carolina. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

We meet our heroine Bertie Anderson immediately, as she is busy rushing to finish decorating a house. Bertie is an interior designer, and within three weeks, she plans to leave Harmony for a dream job at a big designing firm. Bertie’s dream is to make it big, and wants out of Harmony. The town though loves Bertie, as she is Miss do it all, since she helps everyone with whatever needs to be done. They don’t want Bertie to leave Harmony, as she is the glue that holds them together. But they accept that she will leave to fulfill her dreams.

Then she finds out that the mansion she has always wanted to design and decorate has been bought. When she meets the owner, Keith Morgan, a famous retired pro tennis player, Bertie is immediately attracted to this gorgeous hunk. Her “Aunt Franny” to her surprise is Keith’s real aunt, and the two of them are thrown together by the Aunt’s ultimatum. Keith must find a wife in three months or lose custody of his daughter to his Aunt. Bertie is given a huge payoff to stay for 3 more months and finish the house. The plot thickens, as everyone is pushing them together, except Keith and Bertie, who want nothing to do with each other.

Yes, Bertie becomes more and more lustful for Keith, but she wants her dreams and is determined not to fall for this known womanizer. Keith is also hot for Bertie and thinks of her as “Betty Boop”. Bertie is smart, bubbly, independent, outgoing, outspoken, everyone’s friend, and at times clumsy; especially when roller skating at the restaurant she owns with her brother, Cal, on roller derby night. Even Maddie, Keith’s young daughter wants Bertie to be her mom.

But Keith will not allow himself to fall for someone who reminds him of his dead wife, which is all in his mind, as Bertie is nothing like her. Keith wants a quiet stay at home woman, who will cook, clean, take care of Maddie, and do whatever he says, and that is not Bertie by a longshot. What follows is a fun story of two people who are sexually attracted to each other, and do everything they can to avoid one another, despite the need to work together. The sexual chemistry between them is sizzling. I loved Bertie, as she was fun to watch, dealing with her family and friends in this quaint town. There was so much humor throughout, that made this a enjoyable read. I really liked Keith, but his stubbornness and refusal to recognize that Bertie was the perfect woman for him, annoyed me and I wanted to smack him a lot.  

Michele Summers has written a fun and delightful story, and I look forward to reading the next book in this series. If you want a fun small town story, and romance with obstacles, you need to read this book. It will be worth it

Reviewed by Barb

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