Love in Catalina Cove

In Brenda Jackson's Love in Catalina Cove, the first installment in the Catalina Cove contemporary romance series, this love story would sweep you off your feet and carry out away with the store. At age sixteen,Vashti Alcindor had gotten pregnant and kept the secrecy of who fathered her baby. She was told she had lost her son after birth. Now as a grown divorced woman who works in New York City, she received the call from her best friend Bryce that her aunt's inn was in disrepair and it needs to be sold. She flew to Catalina Cove in New Orleans and sped away in a Corvette to her former hometown. SThat's when she ran into Sheriff Sawyer Grisham, a widower with a teenage daughter, who pulled her off and gave her a ticket. At that first meeting, sparks fly across the sky between them, and they later had a casual relationship with each other. Vashti had plans to sell her aunt's inn and return to New York, but for Sawyer, he had convinced her otherwise before she left at the airport. It took her awhile for her to agree to it. And when she returned, she visited Ms. Gertie, a woman with dementia, and a midwife in her community, who knew a secret about her past: her parents lied to her about everything, when they had outright denied it. It began to question her more as she hired a PI to get to the truth, while she made plans to restore her aunt's inn in good shape and to stay in Catalina Cove. The relationship between Vashti and Sawyer had became exclusive, when she later discovered the truth about the baby that she unknowingly gave up for adoption had a surprising twist or two in the end.

This was a passionate and sensual contemporary romance. I did like the seaswept locations of New Orleans, New York City, Sacramento, and even in Waco, Texas. I did love the small-town community of Catalina Cove came together and supported Vashti now, unlike how they did it in the past. I did care for Vashti and what she went through in the beginning, and how she made a name of herself in Catalina Cove.  I did find Sawyer attractive for a hot molten piece of dark chocolate for eye-candy. This would make you want to fan yourself and drink a tall glass of water or two to cool you down with sizzling romance, non-stop action, suspense, and sparks of mystery.

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