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After being the rebound one too many times, I accepted love wasn’t for me... Once, I'd been a hopeless romantic. But getting tossed aside time and time again made me jaded. Happily ever after wasn't for me. Instead, I focused on being my niece's favorite uncle. It was enough. Until Natalie and her daughter. Recently divorced, she’s determined to open a bed and breakfast and hires me to renovate it. I should be focused on the job, but instead I’m distracted by the undeniable attraction between us. When a late-night water leak brings me face-to-face with Natalie wearing nothing but barely-there wet lingerie, I can’t ignore my desires any longer. She and her daughter remind me of the family I'd always wanted but had given up on. Is this relationship the real thing I’ve always dreamed of, or am I once again a rebound?
Publication Year: 2023
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Natalie and her daughter Delaney move to Telluride and she is working to get a bed and breakfast going. She hires grumpy Mac to help her with renovations. There are sparks between the two of them from the beginning, even when they are snarking at each other. They both have baggage from the past: Natalie with her ex and Mac has been the rebound guy so many times that he's jaded on relationships. Mac is also amazing with Delaney, answering her questions and spending time with her. He seems to understand that she needs someone like him in her life and the more time that he spends with her (and Natalie), the more he wants them to be HIS family.
I love Lea's characters in that they are real and have real feelings, emotions and interactions with people. It feels like you could know them in real life as friends and family and you want to shake them and say, do you realize what you might be throwing away?? Those are the best kinds of characters because they make spending time with them so worth it!