Inseverable (Carolina Beach, #1)

by Cecy Robson

[EBookObsessed]

Trinity Summers has no boundaries, and apparently no filters. While I might find a woman like Trinity to be hard to take in real life, here she is exactly what Callahan needs to come out of his self-imposed seclusion.

Trinity and her four best friends since grade school have all returned to Kaiwah, South Carolina for one last summer of life guard duty before striking out into the big bad world. College is over and these close friends will each be heading out to new adventures. Hale is taking a job in New York City, Mason will be starting law school in Georgetown and Trinity has joined the peace corp and will be leaving in September on a two-year contract.

It is shortly after returning home, that Trinity sees Callahan working as a bartender where her and her friends like to hang out after work.  Trinity can't resist trying to get surly Callahan to smile.  Where most people back off when Callahan either ignores them or glares at them, Trinity just sees a challenge she needs to work harder at.

Callahan is annoyed when Trinity starts to join him for his morning run but eventually he begins to look for her along his route.  Where her chatty, friendliness originally annoyed him, he starts to...well, look forward to it might be a little too generous, but Callahan starts to become used to Trinity's sunny disposition.

Like most soldiers returning from Iraq, Callahan has seen and done some things that have changed him and many of those things make him feel unworthy of someone like Trinity.  Callahan is going through a tremendous amount of guilt for what he has done and for simply surviving when there are too many friends who won't be coming home.

It is a wonderful story of how Trinity fights for Callahan to let her in and the relationship that develops between them.

THOUGHTS:
I enjoy Cecy's writing but her stories usually leave me fighting a feeling of dread because I know something very, very bad is going to happen.   In this story, the "dread" would be that Trinity is shipping out to be in the peace corp at the end of the summer, but she doesn't exactly share that information with Callahan.  As the story unfolds, you can understand why she holds back.  Trinity has to fight for every step forward with Callahan and once he finally opens up to her and starts to believe they can have a relationship, she knows that the moment she tells him that she is leaving at the end of the summer, he will withdraw from her.  Every time she goes to say something, he opens up more and more so she holds her tongue.  Why I didn't have that usual feeling of dread is because I felt by the time Callahan finds out, he has fallen so hard for Trinity that no matter what the outcome was going to be, Callahan would not let Trinity get away.

This story was not without some ups and downs as Callahan and Trinity work through their relationship, but it lacks a lot of the angst that her previous series have dragged us through and the whole setting put me in a summer mood.  I think this would make a great beach read to pick up this summer.

 
This review was originally posted on EBookObsessed