AUTHOR: Irene Hannon
DATE: 2024
PUBLISHER: Revell
STARS: *****
From the back cover:
Vienna Price never intended to return for more than a passing visit to Oregon and all the bad memories she'd left behind. But when your career tanks, home is where you go to nurse your wounds and chart a new course. Only temporarily, of course--because as much as she loves her quirky mom, anything more than a short stay would drive them both crazy.
A trip to Oregon isn't in Matt Quinn's plans, either, until a perfectly timed appeal for help arrives from his sister. What better place to decompress after a shattering loss than a quiet, seaside town named Hope Harbor? But R&R isn't on the agenda when he arrives to find his sister's new enterprise on life support.
Vienna, however, may have just the skills needed to resuscitate the foundering B&B--if Matt can convince her to hang around long enough to mend an inn . . . and his heart.
My review:
Any time author Irene Hannon pens another Hope Harbor story, I have to read it. Hope Harbor is a place I would love to visit, and its setting is familiar as family members live up the coast in Washington state. It’s easy to picture the coastal setting, and its citizens have, through the previous ten novels, become like old friends.
Vienna Price’s name jumped out at me with a little thrill, because my vivacious granddaughter is named Vienna, a personal name I hadn’t seen before. That hooked me before the story began. And as it progressed as introduced Matt Quinn, the handsome and intelligent but broken hero, and Vienna’s quirky mother, the story itself captured me.
I loved the messages of reconciliation and hope, a consistent theme in the Hope Harbor series. I was given a copy of this book by the publisher, and Sandcastle Inn easily earns five stars. I hope this isn’t the last of the series, because as the tag line says, “Come hope to Hope Harbor, where hearts heal…and love blooms.” My kind of place!