Rainshadow Road (Friday Harbor, #2)

by Lisa Kleypas

Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in beautiful, inspiring Friday Harbour, Washington. Creatively fulfilled and in love, she is content with her life, until she is stunned by the worst kind of betrayal: her boyfriend Kevin announces he's leaving Lucy to be with her younger sister.

Facing the disapproval of Lucy's parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan, one of the owners of the Rainshadow vineyard, to 'romance' Lucy and help her get over her anger. But when Sam and Lucy begin to fall in love, things become complicated, especially when Kevin starts to have second thoughts. And when Lucy discovers that the new relationship in her life began under false pretences, her world is shattered, and she is forced to question everything.

• ISBN10: 0312605897
• ISBN13: 9780312605896
• Publish Date: 4 June 2013 (first published 28 February 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 11 January 2022
• Imprint: St. Martin's Press
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

[booksandcats]

I loved this book a lot. It was my first Lisa Kleypas book I've read and I read it based on a recommandation off of reddit (I was looking for books where the heroin get's mistreated in some way and get's a moment of "look how much better I am doing") and it totally delivered! I loved Lucy, I love how she tries to stay positive and how she is doing her best to see the good in people. I loved Sam as well, how honest he was, how he was upfront about his wants and needs. Honestly, I was really really happy to see such a mature, nice communicating couple in a romance book, while still having the normal level of tension, problems and everything.

I was so scared when Kevin asked Sam to ask Lucy out, that this was going to be a big plot point in the end, where she finds this out and gets angry and everything, instead he was upfront to her about it. It was so incredibly refreshing!

I also enjoyed the very subtle magical aspect of it, it made it just the right amount of dreamy and fairy like, it was absolutely perfect and got me out of a really bad time. I'm very much planing on reading the rest of this series and then other books of Lisa Kleypas as well.