Grand Central Publishing
Featuring: Leah Sullivan; Jack Harper
368 pages ISBN: 1455521108 EAN: 9781455521104 Kindle: B00AFHHACO Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Leah Sullivan suffered a bad childhood growing up in Lucky
Harbor; complete with a domineering father she could never
please. Her only escapes from her unhappiness were her
grandmother's pastry shop, and with her best friend Jack
Harper; the one person who always stood by her and wiped
away her tears. There came a point to where even that
wasn't enough; and Leah escaped Lucky Harbor, first to
culinary school, and then for a shot at the grand prize on a
cooking reality show. After the show finished filming, but
before the last episodes were aired, Leah comes home;
ostensibly to help her aging grandmother in her pastry shop
for awhile. Leah is contractually forbidden to reveal
anything about the show, so everyone in town is watching
Sweet Wars week after week, certain that their Leah is
going to win.
Jack Harper has stayed closer to his roots in Lucky Harbor.
After a stint as a hotshot firefighter, a knee injury has
forced him home to head up the local fire department. When
Leah returns home, they resume their childhood friendship;
and Leah watches Jack parade a line of relationships that
end as quickly as they started. Jack's mother Dee is
recovering from breast cancer, and is still weak and
struggling to gain back her health. She reveals to Leah
that her fondest wish is to see Jack in a successful
relationship and happy; so Leah blurts out that she and Jack
are seeing each other. This is not true, but when Dee's
evident happiness over the romance is helping her recovery,
they decide to let the lie ride for just a bit.
Unfortunately, being such a small town, the news of their
romance has spread all over town, abetted by Lucille and her
infamous Facebook page. Not only that, Jack's personal
life has begun to suffer, as his lady friends dump him
after finding out that he is taken. Jack decides that if
he is going to have a relationship with Leah, it is going to
be a real romance, not a pretend one. For her part, Leah is
getting ready to run again, before the disastrous last
episode of her reality show airs. As if relationship issues
aren't enough, Jack is having problems with some suspicious
building fires around town, fires which he suspects are
arson.
ALWAYS ON MY MIND is another winning entry in the always
excellent Lucky Harbor series. Jill Shalvis has
brought
in a very entertaining friends to lovers theme; but has
added her own special twist to the trope. Watching Jack
try to convince Leah that being with him and staying in
Lucky Harbor is
what she really wants to stay is a treat to watch unfold.
While not the best of the series stories, ALWAYS ON MY MIND
is still quite
entertaining; and a high quality romance which readers have
come to expect from Shalvis.
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING
After dropping out of pastry school and messing up her big
break on a reality cooking show, Leah Sullivan needs to
accomplish something in her life. But when she returns home
to Lucky Harbor, she finds herself distracted by her best
friend, Jack Harper. In an effort to cheer up Jack's ailing
mother, Dee, Leah tells a little fib - that she and Jack are
more than just friends. Soon pretending to be hot-and-heavy
with this hunky firefighter feels too real to handle . . .
No-strings attachments suit Jack just fine - perfect for
keeping the risk of heartbreak away. But as Jack and Leah
break every one of their "just friends" rules, he longs to
turn their pretend relationship into something permanent. Do
best friends know too much about each other to risk falling
in love? Or will Jack and Leah discover something new about
each other in a little town called Lucky Harbor?
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