Thank you so much to Courtney Kae, NetGalley & Kensington Books for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review. 

This book will be published on August 30th. 

"Romance novels should be flaunted with pride." 

After a scandal with a client, Morgan retreats back to her hometown to get a well deserved break from event planning. Though workaholic can't stay away from planning too long, she gets tricked into planning a fundraiser to help save her childhood best friend's business from the big business that has been taking over. Morgan did not leave her hometown on the best of terms so she has to work to rebuild her relationship with her old friends and family. One relationship she was most unsure about was with her former best friend turn crush Rachel Reed. It was a rocky start but once they had a heart to heart things fell into place. 

"I want to be overwhelmed by you. All of you."

Ya'll this was a great book to kick off the start of the new holiday releases! This book had everything I needed in a queer romance.  This has been labeled as a queer Hallmark movie and honestly it does. My Hallmark viewing has declined over the years (just not enough time in the day) but if they were like this, then perhaps I would make the time to watch more. 

I was really excited to have read a second chance romance. It's not a trope I find myself reading a whole lot of and I loved it. Of course there was some force proximity which is a favorite trope of mine. I was rooting for Rachel and Morgan throughout the book and knew that they just had to have their happily ever after. Also the SPICE in this was so hot!! 

I would never have thought from the way this was written that this was a debut book. The dialogue, the descriptions were crafted so well and flowed beautifully. 

I am looking forward to the new book in the series & can't see where the characters from Fern Falls go!