Forever and a Day: Number 6 in series (Lucky Harbor, #6)

by Jill Shalvis

Grace had a great life in New York, until it shattered. Finding out at age 30 that you're adopted will do that to a person. With everything she once believed in yanked out from beneath her feet, Grace travels across the country to find herself. She goes looking for roots, but what she finds is much, much more. Some of that comes in the form of Dr. Josh Scott, an ER doc working nights. He's tough and jaded when Grace first shows up at his place looking for his employee - whom she believes is her birth mother. But she's wrong. And exhausted or not, Josh is protective of what's his: his young son, his staff, his quiet world. But even his own defenses are no match for what he sees in Grace ... a kindred soul.

• ISBN10: 145550369X
• ISBN13: 9781455503698
• Publish Date: 6 September 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 6 August 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Forever
• Format: Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[nitzan_schwarz]

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My favorite so far!

The sixth installment in the Lucky Harbor series does not disappoint. If anything; it just keeps getting better. Jill Shalvis is a master, and all you can do is watch in owe as she works her magic.

We're back in the little town of Lucky Harbor, where sexy available men are everywhere, beautiful unattached women can be found watering tables and everyone knows everyone's business.
This time, the story centers around the third and last chocoholic; Grace Brooks, and the sexy ER doctor/single father; Josh Scott. We already read Ty and Mallory's story, Amy and Matt's... it's time for the last one to find love. And boy, does she find it.


Summery from Goodreads:

LOVE CAN HAPPEN IN A HEARTBEAT.
Grace never thought she’d be starting her life over from scratch. Losing everything has landed her in Lucky Harbor, working as a dog walker for overwhelmed ER doctor Josh Scott. But the day his nanny fails to show up, Grace goes from caring for Josh’s loveable mutt to caring for his rambunctious kids. Soon Grace is playing house with the sexy single dad…
With so many people depending on him, Josh has no time for anything outside of his clinic and family–until Grace arrives in town. Now this brainy blonde is turning his life inside out and giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “good bedside manner.” Josh and Grace don’t know if what they have can last. But in a town like Lucky Harbor, a lifetime of love starts with just one day…

Boy, and I thought I loved Matt and Amy from the last story! I just adored both Grace and Josh. Jill Shalvis has the unique ability to create completely lovable characters. You come out of her stories liking everyone and everything. Seriously.

For me, Forever and a Day has something that At Last (Lucky Harbor 05) didn't have; heart clenching moments that had nothing to do with a hard past, but characters I was so in tune with that every time they hurt, every time things got a little rough, every time one of them got a metaphorical punch to the gut, I hurt.

I loved Josh and Grace. Both were so real, so solid, and such good people. Really, in Shalvis's books, everyone is always such good people. Makes you wish there were more people like them in real life.
And the chemistry between the two was just hot. They were hot. Time to take the fan out of the closet, girls – You'll need it.

Josh's family was great, and it was interesting to see of a couple with a build in family: We have Toby, Josh's five years old son. The guy's freaking adorable. He also barks, but that's just a phase.

Then there is Anna, Josh's paralyzed younger sister who also happens to have an attitude that drives a man mad--with the need to kill her, that it. I loved Anna, and how she kept trying to mess with Josh, because she's so lost. I loved watching how Grace helped her, in her own way. Anna needed a Grace in her life.
I kind of hope Anna will get a book of her own; she is definitely a character I'd love to read about, and writing about a handicapped character will surely be an interesting challenge to Shalvis.

I also loved getting to see Chloe (Lucky Harbor 03) again- she actually spoke in this book! As well as Ford (Lucky Harbor 02), and Sawyer (Lucky Harbor 03).

We have an Epilogue this installment, and it's cute!! Every other book I keep wondering when they'll have kids and all that, and here we're shown! Love it! it was a short one, but satisfying nonetheless.

I hope Shalvis will do a small collection letting us know what happened with all the couples; kids, marriage and all that. I'm dying to know about Chloe and Sawyer and Matt and Amy!!!

Well, I really don't have much to say here. Just that I loved the book, read it in one sitting and I greatly recommend the series!

[leelu92]

*swoon* JOSH! And Grace....awesome. I really enjoyed their story and I'm looking forward to more Lucky Harbor books.
The pool scenes were especially...NICE.

[Linda]

*I got a free copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley.*

Forever and a Day is maybe the most beautiful story of the Lucky Harbor series.


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When Scott calls Grace and asks her to look after his new dog, Tank, Grace takes the job, even if it isn’t her flyer that advertised dog-walker services. Their quirky personalities, and their missed attempts at resisting each other makes them both so loveable and root-worthy. I was hoping, along with their friends, that they would work things out, fall in love and live happily ever after.

It is hard for Grace to stay in Lucky Harbor without letting her parents know what she’s up to. At the same time, she both kind of starts a new business, and interviews for a few positions that she is highly qualified for. As the story moves on, Scott and Grace are both ready to ignite the flames of their passion, and they are so hot together a simple fan is not enough to keep your cool while you’re reading this. They are resisting each other for all the wrong reasons, and when they finally give in, it is both hot and sweet, and it feels like they have both finally come full circle.

[Cocktails and Books]

Grace Brooks rolls into Lucky Harbor trying to catch a break. What she finds is herself dog sitting a terror of a puppy and the loveable son of Dr. Josh Scott. While there is immediate attraction between the two, they both fight it for different reasons. Grace is convinced she's only going to be in town for a short time, as she's trying to find that job that will make her worthy of her brilliant adoptive parents. Josh is determined not to repeat the past after a one night stand gave him his son and a broken heart when he wife left him.

Everyone knows you can only fight smoking hot chemistry for so long. As soon as Grace and Josh give into their attraction, every argument they make for not getting involved seems to be pushed aside to them actually starting a relationship.

Of course, past hurts have a way of molding us into the people we are today. The same is true of Josh and Grace. They are both determined to not fall into the pitfalls of their past with each other, they never realized that they've done exactly that. While Josh may not want a long term relationship, he's got a woman who can handle his out of control puppy, his argumentative sister and give a little boy the female motherly attention he craves. Not to mention, giving daddy what he needs too. For Grace, while she was so focused on finding a job that her parents would deem worthy, she found that she liked doing the menial tasks around the house, taking care of Josh's family and doing a little accounting on the side. It gave her the sense of fitting in and family that she never really had before. Once they both stopped looking at the reasons why not, they discovered they couldn't live without each other.

I love the Lucky Harbor series and the characters that Jill Shalvis creates. Lucky Harbor is a place that seems to magically be able to give people what they want, even when they think a small coastal town in Washington state isn't it. Somehow between the city and it's residents, they're able to provide that extra something to those who need it to get their HEA.