Kline Grant has traveled the world for more than a decade to avoid going back home—and to make sure she doesn’t see Ben, her former fiancé. But her mother’s recent health troubles make it impossible for Kline to stay away. She plans to check on her mom, avoid Ben, and then get back on the road again. But the quirky town locals of Anderson Butte, a private little celebrity hideaway in the picturesque mountains of Colorado, have a very different plan.
Ben Anderson, the town’s handsome and beloved doctor, once broke Kline’s heart for reasons he’s never explained. When he figures out her mother’s scheme to trick her into coming home, he enlists the meddling townspeople’s help to make things right again with Kline. Then Ben plans to win her back. But as the former flames come face-to-face, old wounds ache, hurtful secrets emerge, and sparks fly with the heat between them that’s never cooled. Will the truth be enough to heal two broken hearts, or will it keep them apart forever?
I was so happy to get this book and take another trip back to Anderson Butte. I am totally enamored with this town and folks who live in it, that I never want this series to end. Baumann has done a great job building this amazing place, where I would love to live, and creating all these wonderful characters that I would like to have as friends.
This is the last (gasp!) Anderson sibling, Ben's, story. As one of the older siblings, he had to make sacrifices in order to make sure his younger brother and sisters were cared for. One of these sacrifices was saying goodbye to the love of his life, Kline. Now, a decade later, Kline has finally returned home to check in on her "ailing" mother, and the entire town is attempting to make this a second chance love story.
He used to tell her she was his true north. The only person he wanted to be with, especially after a bad day.
This book is filled with all the stuff I love so much about this series: lots of sibling interactions, lots of hijinks in the town with its denizens, so many laughs, and a lot of really beautiful romantic stuff too. If this is the last book in the series, Baumann did a great job giving us updates on all the couples and giving us a great ending, but I am hoping there will be more.
