Seaview Inn
by Sherryl Woods
Published by MIRA Books
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Reviewed by Knevits Stephens
Hannah Mathews is one tough woman. She prides herself as being able to do it all. She has survived breast cancer and is a single mother with a daughter in college. But now things are getting to be too much.
Hannah recently lost her own mother to cancer. After her mother’s death, she decides to go persuade Jenny, her eighty-five-year-old grandmother, to sell the Seaview Inn and go into a retirement home. She takes two weeks off work to go to Seaview Key. Then grandma talks her into doing renovations to the Inn. As if that’s not enough work for her, she gets a call that her daughter is coming home from college–and she’s pregnant.
One day Luke Stevens shows up at Seaview Key, and now Hannah has to deal with an old crush as well. Luke feels like the place was home twenty years ago and needs to be there to clear his head. But Luke has some issues as well. He was in Iraq, his wife left him for his best friend, his kids are mad at him for leaving, and he has a bum leg. While he is helping to do renovations at the Inn, he finds himself falling in love with Hannah as well as his old hometown.
Grandma Jenny might be old but she’s feisty and sees things that others don’t. She is having help to get the renovations done and the Inn up and running again. And with a little push maybe she can get two people to see things for what they are.
Hannah and Luke are learning it feels good to be home. People call you by your name and know you, unlike in the city where you are just another passerby. Plus there are the perks of the peace and quiet and those strolls on the beach–and don’t forget the memories of sitting on the porch, enjoying the breeze and hanging out.
Luke and Hannah are trying to get their lives on track. The flirting has started and it could be love.
Armchair Interviews says: A sweet love story.
Author’s Web site: http://www.SherrylWoods.com