I really liked this book. It was engaging a good story line, well developed characters, well developed story. The book pulls you in from page one and you are lost in the story, it makes you want to keep turning the pages and not go to sleep...I read it in a day and a half. It is about a gal who wins a destination wedding but she hasn't been asked to marry her boyfriend of two years. How does she go home from Colorado where she has been visiting her friend in preparation for her upcoming wedding, and tell her boyfriend, honey I won a destination wedding, want to get married? She has been dating him for two years, their families have always said they were perfect for each other and they have been...she us perfect at keeping his secret....his Mother is an alcoholic a somewhat functioning one.
She has been working at her fathers realty for years, trying to prove to him that eventually she is good enough to be his partner or can take over the business. She is struck deaf and dumb when he comes in one morning and announces he's taken a party and she quits her job! She has done everything she could over the years trying to get his attention and have him say at least once that he is proud of her. It doesn't happen. She does get a call from an old boyfriend who she knew she cared about very much, but she kept her relationship with him at work a secret due to her Father. When her Father becomes aware of him and their relationship, she chooses her Father and Kade leaves town to start a realty of his own. He never hears from her again, no explanation as to why she doesn't take his calls. He has a home that he has built for someone who is handicapped, it is to be featured in a tour of homes, and he has lost his home stager. He reaches out to Caron as he had run into her with his friend while showing her a home and he has heard that Caron is out of a job. He knows she can stage a home even though she hasn't done this as a full time job. She used to do a bit of that for the homes she was trying to sell and her own home has always been set up so great. She can do the job, so he calls her an offers her the job and she decides to grab the job and come for a month to do this and get a break from the job she left behind at her Father's realty. What she doesn't realize is that she'll fall in love with the job and fall in love with the guy she let go. I'm spoiling this I guess. I'll mark it, I really liked the book!
Here is the description as found here on Good Reads: From the author of Somebody Like You, a RITA finalist, and one of Publishers Weekly’s top ten books of 2014, comes the story of a woman who has everything for a perfect wedding—except the groom!
Winning an all-expenses paid Colorado destination wedding might seem like a dream come true for some people—but Caron Hollister and her boyfriend Alex Madison aren’t even engaged. How is she supposed to tell him she’s won their wedding and honeymoon when he hasn’t asked her to marry him? Being “perfect for one another” seems like the absolute best reason to get married. But what if their supposedly faultless relationship is merely a safe place to protect his secrets and a way to keep their families happy? After quitting her job, Caron accepts her best friend’s offer to visit Colorado. She needs to catch her breath. Who knows, maybe visiting the destination wedding site will make a future with Alex seem like a reality.
Kade Webster just landed the biggest deal of his life with his company, Webster Select Realty, participating in the Colorado Springs Tour of Homes. He never imagined he would run into the woman who broke his heart—Caron Hollister—right when his career is taking off. Seeing her again, Kade can’t help but wonder why Caron walked away from him years ago, leaving him with no explanation. When Kade learns his home stager won’t be able to help with the Tour of Homes, he vaults past all the reasons he should stay away from Caron, and offers her a temporary job helping him on the project. This time, their relationship is purely business.
Spending time with Kade has Caron questioning everything. The man intrigues her—at times infuriates her—and reminds her of what she lost. Has she been settling for what everyone expects of her? Just because others believe she and Alex are an ideal couple, does that mean they should get married? And how can Caron say “I do” to one man when she’s wondering “what if?” about another?
