Brianna Concannon believes she is content running her family's B&B in Ireland. Content with making the perfect bed, the perfect breakfast, the perfect flower bed. But deep inside her burns a desire for a family of her own, a desire she buried deep inside her after being jilted by her fiancee years ago. A desire reignited by the arrival of one Grayson Thane, author and charmer, to her inn.

Try as she might to not let her heart fall to the tempestuous yet kind hearted man who locks himself into his room to write his murder mysteries she can't resist, but as family secrets begin to unfold, Brianna might just have to let this wandering man blow just as quickly out of her life.

A classic Nora contemporary, I would have LOVED this story even ten years ago, but today I was left kind of underwhelmed, slightly bored, and also puzzled by how many times Brianna and Gray boned without protection and not even a hint of a secret baby (sign of the times).

I also hated how Gray treated Brianna when he was in his "artist" mode, grunting at her as she angelically laid his food trays at his side so as to not bother his "muse." I wanted her to dump that food on his head sometimes. The grovel was not enough either. I didn't mind his smoking and I felt Brianna's virginity was handled in a not icky way, but her mother needs to get a boot in the head. I think I'd have enjoyed Born in Fire or Born in Shame more (this Murphy, I must know more about him).

CW: Gray roughly grabs Brianna by the arm and she needs to tell him he's hurting her. A racist slur is used to describe Gray's looks. Fat shaming.