I Saw Her Standing There by Marie Force

I Saw Her Standing There (Green Mountain Romance, #3)

by Marie Force

There’s a budding romance on Butler Mountain, but in the hornets’ nest known as the Abbott family, keeping a secret is no easy feat…

Colton Abbott and Lucy Mulvaney have a secret. Colton’s nosy siblings have begun to put the pieces together, but it’s not like Lucy to keep things from those closest to her—especially her best friend, Cameron, who recently moved to Vermont to live with her true love, Will. But Lucy isn’t about to tell Cam she’s having a fling…with Will’s brother.

Flitting between New York and Vermont is exhausting, so Lucy is looking forward to a long weekend with Colton at the Abbott family lake house in Burlington. Too bad Will and Cameron have the same idea, and once Colton and Lucy are caught red-handed (and red-faced), will their clandestine romance lose its appeal or will their secret beginnings be the start of something lasting?

Includes a bonus Green Mountain short story!

 

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5 of 5 stars

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Lucy and Colton are absolutely adorable together. They truly are a magical couple with a great dynamic. Due to the fact that Lucy is a New Yorker and Colton lives up on the mountain in Vermont making maple syrup, Lucy is very hesitant to move the relationship forward into anything serious. She insists that she will not move from New York since Lucy is already working so hard to make up for the loss when Cameron left the company to live with Will in VT. Also, her father, sister and young niece live close by her. Colton is aware that he knows everything about making tapping trees and making syrup, but not many other skills. He never went to college and hasn’t done anything else since he was a teen so for him to move to New York City would leave him unmarketable and unemployed.

Obviously, this will be the very big wall between them and although they both know that their relationship is a rare gift, the reality is that their worlds are located 6 hours apart. I must confess that I couldn’t figure a way to blend their two worlds and couldn’t wait to get to the end to see how Marie Force wrapped this one up.

Colton’s family is aware that there is someone in Colton’s life, and his father, always the matchmaker, gives Colton the keys to the family lake house and then gives a key to Will and Cameron who walk in on Colton and his “mystery woman.” There is a reckoning since not only has Colton been sneaking around without introducing his family, but Lucy has been hiding it from Cameron as well.

Once it is out in the open, Cameron convinces Lucy to give Colton a chance and see what happens without fretting so much about tomorrow. Colton, to get away from is busy-body brother, takes Lucy up to his mountain and has to introduce the tech-savy, city girl to his one room cabin in the mountain with no electricity and no indoor plumbing. I could wait to see that happen and it certainly was entertaining to watch her get used to life which is one tiny step up from camping.

Lucy and Colton are trying to enjoy their weekend…alone, while the Abbotts are getting ready for the wedding of Nolan and Hannah. As wonderful as the time we spent with Lucy and Colton was, it was always overshadowed by the knowledge that they truly lived in different worlds.

This is a great series and I can’t wait to read more.

There is a very funny bonus story at the end where Colton actually takes her camping. Lucy and I are in total agreement about how much camping sucks.

Received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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